When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.