People ask how you write 900 songs. The answer is boring: you write one song, and then you do it again tomorrow.
There’s no trick to prolific output. There’s just the commitment to sit down and do the work even when you don’t feel inspired. Especially when you don’t feel inspired. Inspiration is a visitor. Discipline lives in the house.
Not every song is great. Some are mediocre. A few are terrible. But scattered through the catalogue are songs that surprised me — ones that came out better than I had any right to expect. Those songs only exist because I was at the desk that day.
The 900th song is no more or less important than the first. The next one matters most.
— Gerry