When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
The death penalty is reserved for people who do not
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.
It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.