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A lot of the songs that I sing relate to feelings, you know!
Love is one of these things that all of us can relate ...
no! the truth is
funny people ask me about the word "young" because the album
starts and ends with "young", (You make me feel so young" and young at heart) so you
could say that the album is about that! The truth is the album
was made by
a guy who was really content in this life, i've found happiness... i mean
in every way
you know! in my personal life, becoming a father
uh...
and i think as a musician: trusting myself and my instincts i´ve got to make
an album
um... you know i felt very free and i made it
with people that i love, so
uh... that's what we did, we just sat down and
we all made this authentic, organic and wonderful album together!
I think that writing a love song is uh... for written songs
were a lot of different things... On this album
i've written about the fact of being in love, heartache,,
and being appreciative of what i have in life,
and i think you pull
a sort of these ideas from different places!, how you're feeling at a certain
time in a certain day
and
no! i feel like
i don't know if i´d say the writing is fun, i think it's cathartic and i
think it´s therapeutic
i don't know if it's fun, it's a lot of work
you know ...it's something that...
you know! It´s strange to say this but is breathing fun
or it is something that you just do, first over me I think
it's something that
it's just a part of me!!! First off "Something Stupid" is a song that
i´ve always wanted to do! i´ve wanted to do in my last few records! The truth is
i just couldn't think of a great concept, i couldn't think of a person for the duet
and make it special and
the truth is
i can hear before i ever record the song
how it would sound its tonality, or me and the person singing together, how´s the sound together?
and i'd meet choices that are probably
not choices that people would expect! I remember on the first album i chose Nelly Furtado
and people didn't understand my idea but
you know! there's a lot of reasons for that. Ron Sexsmith ...
Ivan Lins is one of these wonderful brazilian artists
the truth is i'd just felt that she was right and felt that
that tonal quality in her voice would match perfectly with mine, and
i really did... i thought: "we´ll be like butter together"
and um... and i also thought as
she´s a powerful actress she's ...
... instinctual creature who understands subtext and i think that
really
turn me on to working with her because she understood the meaning of the song
and... you know! Other people said: oh this is a great love song and gentle ...
it wasn't a love song, it was a song about a man
far more in love with that woman than she, with that man, and that she could
be gone at any time
There is a bit of sadness and at the same time
a thrill ...
a thrill because this is a huge sentiment that this guy has for her
and when i finished I knew I had made the right decision because
i thought we´d sounded great together...
" Kinda like butter "...