What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'
I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.
Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.
The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.'
I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.
Inspiration can really strike from anywhere.
Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head.
