I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

The phrasing didn't work as well.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

I've got nothing to do today but smile.