I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.
You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.
I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we might get one really good one.'
Some songs take months to get right, but 'Let Her Go' was so easy. I was no more pleased with it than any other song I'd written.
You spend all day getting the song good, and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.
The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.
I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.
I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song.
