What is it like collaborating with someone writing a song?
I imagine there must be a bit of a tug of war when you want to take things one direction and he wants to go in another. Yeah. Well, to be honest, because of that, I’m not very good at co-writing, and I’ve only ever co-written one song, which is “Halfway up the Hindu Kush” on Piece by Piece, my second album. The way we wrote it was, I had written this idea for a song, which I didn’t really think was serious enough or good enough to go on the album. But I played it for Mike before describing it. I said, “Here’s a laugh, listen to this.” And he actually really loved the melody of the chorus and the lyrics of the chorus, and said, “Well, can I take it away and rewrite the verses?” So what I’m saying is, the way we wrote it, it was separate. I’d written one part of the song, and then he went away and wrote a different part of the song, and then we came back together and fit it all together. I just find writing such a personal thing, and it can be a bit hard to not only want to take it somew
