I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.
I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.
If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.
One man gathers what another man spills
