"Songwriting is a desperate scavenging act," Paul Kelly muses. "You just grab from anywhere you can: Bits from other songs; bits from your own life; bits you've heard in the news; bits from a book or from poetry. You're just trying to get words to rhyme and to fit a melody."
Sounds simple enough. And to the prolific Australian singer-songwriter who, 20 years into a celebrated career, recently released a two-CD set comprising 21 original songs, perhaps it is. We should all be so lucky.
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