Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'
It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.
As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
