It's particularly hard on women in my position. Men tend to look at you differently. I don't want that kind of man. I don't want to be involved with somebody who's going to be gawking at me and treating me like some goddess. Lord knows I'm not a goddess. I want to be treated like a real person. |
John and I used to basically ignore each other. We were cold as ice to each other. He found it easier that way. |
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. |
Mick and John are happy with me writing songs for the band at this particular point in time. I don't know what's going to happen down the road a couple of years. |
My range seems to have been getting higher. I just can't sing as low as I used to. I don't know how I ever recorded some of the old songs in such low keys. Lindsey often changes his songs, too. He records a song in E, then changes to F. That can affect the vocal blend a lot. |
My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves. |
Normally there's a characteristic in each song, either a riff or an underlying musical theme, that makes the keyboard part clear if you look for it. |
Of course I get writer's block. It's terrible. |
Other people seem to write about love, don't they? It seems to be the least pretentious subject to write about. I've been taking a lot of criticism for it, but at least it's honest. But one shouldn't go and make a solo album if they can't take a little knocking, should they? |
Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my songs. But on my own album I had room to use songs I wanted. |
Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes. |
Stevie writes ethereal mystical lyrics, but the moment I write words like that, I get this chill up my spine, kind of getting embarrassed and not feeling sincere about it. But if you're sincere, you can write anything you like. In this stage of my musical life I don't feel honest doing that. |
Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do? |
The band wanted me to expand my role and have a little more freedom... I may not play very well, but I play it the way it suits the band. |
The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can we really go ahead and do this? And it was obvious within the first moment of plugging in the instruments that the magic was still there. It was a fantastic feeling. |