I Love Being Manipulated By What I

I Want To Write Songs That Are So Sad, The Kind Of Sad Where You Take Someone's Little Finger And Break It In Three Places.

You Searched Through All My Poets, From Sappho Through To Auden, I Saw The Book Fall From Your Hands, As You Slowly Died Of Boredom.

When I Start To Write A Song, I Initially Fall Into Patterns And Creative Habits That Are Familiar, And Because They're Familiar, They Sound Convincing. It's Important For Me To Not Pursue Those Ideas, Because I've Already Done Them, But To Find Ideas That Are Different And Feel Strange To Write And Disconcerting To Write.

I Just Want To Leave This World With A Massive Catalog Of Songs.

The Writer Who Refuses To Explore The Darker Regions Of The Heart Will Never Be Able To Write Convincingly About The Wonder, The Magic And The Joy Of Love For Just As Goodness Cannot Be Trusted Unless It Has Breathed The Same Air As Evil.