“I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of the imagination and aren't any rules, but there are principles. The first one is that art is a process, not a product. In fact, that holds true for damn near everything we do in life. The product is just something that happens. If you're faithful to the process, the product takes care of itself.” IfsWritingFirstsArtFactsHappensCareProcessImaginationMy OwnPrinciplesStudyProductsArt IsTake CareI RealizedFaithfulDamnSongwritingFormulasExamination Author:Andy Wilkinson
“So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be, and I let it take me along. So I've had songs that started out as being about the environment and ended up being love songs and love songs that ended up being about the environment. I've had things that I thought would be a poem and realized that it was just too big for that. I've got to do something larger and it became a play. I wrote one poem that started a whole play.” WritingPlayWholeBigsWould BeSongSuccessfulEnvironmentPiecesOughtAnd LoveNotionI RealizedAbandonSongwritingTake Me Author:Andy Wilkinson
