The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.
My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.
I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.
I like to improvise.
When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.
My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.
I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.
Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.
Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.
I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
