I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.