Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.
I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.
We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Traffic was very, very free. It was great.
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.