I wrote "Albatross," and then I wrote "My Father," and then I wrote "Che," which took me about five years to write. It took me about 40 minutes to write that song. I went home and wrote "Since You've Asked," which was my first song, which I sat down at the piano and noodled away until I found it. When Leonard Cohen asked me why I was not writing my own songs, and it was 1966, so I was 27 and had already made half a dozen albums. I think that the combination was set very, very early. and practicing the piano, singing and writing.ĭo you find that it's easier to write songs now than it was when you were younger? And so the pandemic was spent ordering food out, taking walks around the park and down the river, down the Hudson, having Zooms with friends. I've always written poems and I've always written songs right along the way, but this time I was going to concentrate only on my own songs. So I had a lot of material to go through, and I do still think that the writing of poetry, quote unquote, which really you can turn into a lyric when you sit down with it at the piano - it's a very good access point to getting out songs that you couldn't get out otherwise. And I had done a lot of writing, a lot of trying to get a lyric crafted out of attempted poems for three or four years. I'd recorded four or five songs at the end of 2019, so I knew I was in the groove. So it was an expensive rest because, of course, you know, there's no money coming in, and there's all the bills to pay. I was told for many years: "You have to take some time off," and I never could.
Well, I was thrilled to be off the road, I can't tell you. to discuss the new album, her memories of "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" and the rigor of working in the music industry. She responded with her first composition, " Since You've Asked," and has been writing ever since. Spellbound includes a number of retrospective songs that touch on her childhood, her whirlwind life in Greenwich Village and various other snapshots of her storied career, plus songs that, as Collins describes it, arrived "mysteriously."Ĭollins spoke with UCR from Santa Fe, N.M.
It was Cohen, sometime in the latter half of the '60s, who first asked her why she didn't write her own songs.
Make no mistake though, Collins, who has spent most of the last several decades touring, has always been a prolific writer. Collins' version hit the top of the charts and stayed there for weeks. "I thought, 'This is the kind of song that'll be played in boites - supper clubs - and that's all,'" he said in a 2005 interview.
Sondheim himself had never considered the song to be of much merit. In 1975, Collins recorded a cover of Stephen Sondheim's " Send in the Clowns" from Broadway's 1973 production A Little Night Music.
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