Bodo
Oct-14-2011, 10:50 GMT
Austria
 | Thats such a good interview that we have to save parts of it:
Do you have a visual image of the characters you sing about?
Yes. The guy in "Rewrite" has lanky hair, parted in the middle. It´s down to his shoulders. It probably was blonde, now it´s mostly gray. He´s thin and he´s got a chain around his neck. Wearing jeans. Maybe 5-foot-10. A medium person in all ways. He´s smiling. And he has bursts of energy.
Does the image help write the song?
Could be if it was useful. I don´t start out with an idea, I wait for the first line to push me forward. He emerged in the second half of the first verse, at the car wash. As soon as that happened, I had a picture of him. He probably had a rag in his back pocket. I could see him going through the cash register sometimes. He´s like guys I knew of from my generation. He burned out. Some were Vietnam guys. Some were acid casualties. But he´s not pathetic. He´s upbeat with a pretty good sense of balance. "Help me, help me, help me, help me. Thank you." That´s a good sense of balance. |
