But you are doing your best. You have pretty much released an album a year since 2002.
There were a couple of years where it was a year and a half or so. I try not to count. I just notice that point where I have toured behind a record, and visited all those places I tend to hit in the U.S. All of the sudden I've got 13 to 15 songs and they're just burning a hole in my brain and I got to get back in and record. It's kind of seasonal I guess.
This particular record [Chandelier] I didn't really tour behind the songs. A lot of them had been written just before I went back into the studio or they were quiet a bit older and just hadn't been out and about for several years. There are a few of them including “My Word” and “Moonlight & Fireflies”. Most of the rest of them were written right as I was going into the studio. That's a bit unusual for me. Usually I've written them in the last year or two, before going back in, and “shed” them, so-to-speak, on the road for my band.
Where do you get your inspiration for your music? You're so prolific it must difficult to find it.
I'm not as prolific as I seem. I have a lot of peers who... they kick tuchas, they write a lot of freaking songs. They are songwriters. I feel like I just write when the spirit moves me, (laughs) you know. I end up with exactly the number of songs I need every year to record. When I was little I wrote a song a day, at least. I was sitting in front of DX7 and my drum machine and writing song, after song, after song. I definitely don't do that anymore. I guess it's all relative. It's like a poet, they might write constantly but only reveal a few of their poems ultimately in a book. That's what I strive for, to be a songwriter all the time. I just don't have time. I see so many words flying around the air and hear so many things going on in the world that I want too.
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