Chapter TwoI don’t have any problem playing or hearing the music. If anything, I find I have more ideas for compositions than I ever had before. Finishing a song, making a song, that’s the skill that feels completely unraveled, down to a frayed nub.
I’d like to blame it on reviews of my last album, but that would be nutless, and besides, the reviews were right, and I’ve been waiting for years for critics to say what they finally did.
I don’t have any problem making music, but like all those smart guys pointed out, I don’t always make a song.
A good song — and I know this because there’s nothing I love more than a good song — belongs completely to the listener. Even a number-one Billboard triple-platinum summer pop sensation song should seem like it perfectly captures your summer and nob
