Jack interviewed by Benjamin Opipari for WRITERS ON PROCESS

Posted on Aug 6 2010

Link: http://www.writersonprocess.com/2010/07/...

WOP: "How do you get inspired to write?"
JACK TEMPCHIN: "Part of my technique that Glenn Frey and I developed has always involved writing with an inner voice called El Blurto. You pick up the guitar, start playing, and just start singing anything that comes out. This has been my way for years. I play, find some cool chord, play for a while, then just start singing. Whatever comes out, I record. Then when I go back and listen, I type out every word. I do no editing. as I type. Next, I'll look at the lyrics and cross things out, rearrange, then sing that new set of lyrics. I just keep doing that until the song gets close to being done. Then when it's almost done, I take the lines and really start to tweak them."