Writing songs is the best job in the world. I’m in heaven when I’m strolling through a park, trying to come up with an idea that hasn’t been sung about before.
This involves a great amount of mind-wandering lunacy but when it happens, it is the best of all feelings. I don’t have to be in a park. I feel the same way in my kitchen with a cup of mint tea.
If anyone says to me they were moved by a song of mine, I know I’ve done my job right.
That said, it isn’t easy. I once compared writing lyrics to doing your own root-canal work. Stephen Sondheim called it agonising fun. It is easy to write
