You Want To Be A Writer, Don't

A Songwriter's Supreme Challenge Is Being Complex And Simple At The Same Time

Somewhere In A Burst Of Glory / Sound Becomes A Song.

These Are The Days Of Lasers In The Jungle, Staccato Signals Of Constant Information.

Most Of The Time, When I Had Hits As A Soloist - Maybe Not So Much With Simon & Garfunkel - I Was Surprised They Were Hits. I Didn't Know What The Hits Were. I Never Thought That 'loves Me Like A Rock' Was Going To Be A Hit, Or 'mother And Child Reunion,' Or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They Didn't Sound Like What The Hits Sounded Like At The Time. Radio Was More Open To Things That Weren't Exactly What Every Other Hit Was.

I Sort Of Recognize It, As Opposed To Shaping It. Oh, That's A Good Idea, That's A Good Line. I Wonder Where I Can Use That. And When You Get Into A Rhyme Group Like 'not,' You Got A Lot Of Rhymes, You Got A Lot Of Choices. The More You Do It, The Luckier You Get.