When I write a song it almost always changes after I think it’s finished because I learn a lot by performing it, what words are not quite right, what phrases can be compacted, what words can be left out, and so on. If I compare the way I perform a song to the written version in my notebook I almost always find it has been smoothing out and improving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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