Question All As To Their Ways And

I Think I've Owned All The Models Of Ipods So Far. And These Days Between My Ipod, Iphone And My Personal Laptop Computer, I'm Someone Who Is Very, Very Grateful For All The Ways To Listen To Music And Completely Switch Off From People Around Me And Listen To The Music In Detail, Which Is Very Hard To Do If You're In A Room With Other People.

In Writing Lyrics - Well, For Me, Anyway - It's About Getting Into Character, You Know? 'who Is Writing This?' In The Case Of The Original 'thick As A Brick,' Supposedly A Precocious, Very Young Child Who's Fantasizing About His Future And The Context Of All The Confusing Elements To Which School Boys Are Subjected At That Time.

I Don't Think Successful Musicians Were Really Put On This Planet In Order To Have A Great Time, Pat Themselves On The Back And Say, 'oh, What A Clever Boy I Am!' I Think That, Like Most Artists, We Were Put On The Planet To Suffer Just A Little. And We Do.

Bring Me A Wheel Of Oaken Wood A Rein Of Polished Leather A Heavy Horse And A Tumbling Sky Brewing Heavy Weather.

As A Songwriter, You Tend To Develop Your Own Style, Your Own Technique, Based Around What It Is You're Trying To Write And Perform, In Terms Of Your Own Music. So A Way Of Evolving A Guitar Style As A Songwriter Is Much Easier, I Think, Than Developing A True Style Of Your Own Just From Listening To Music Or Playing Other People's Music.