Unlike a lot of his peers who no longer record new music, Paul McCartney is still at it, saying on his website that he’s blessed to never have suffered from writer’s block.
He was asked about it in his “You Gave Me the Answer” column on his website, saying, “I hardly ever sit down and go, ‘I’m going to write’. It’s nearly always when I’ve got some time and there’s nothing else I particularly want or need to do.
“I can just sit down and noodle around with something because it’s come from my own desire and not somebody else’s, or of a requirement. It often comes reasonably easy…
“I sometimes tell the story of John (Lennon) and I having written just short of three hundred songs, and every time we sat down to write we came up with a song. Which is incredible!”
McCartney has been working on a new album, but still no word on when it will be released. Here’s Paul on songwriting:
“I write wherever. I can write on tour. It’s really when I’ve got some time off and I’m not gonna fill it with like doing hobbies and things and I’ve just got some time to fill. So it could be at home, it can be on holiday, it can be anywhere really. It’s wherever I’ve got a piano or a guitar. You know I don’t really set myself, ‘Okay, this week I’m going to write.'”
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