When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.
“I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.”
“It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.”