"I wish you had the amount of living under your belt when you start writing songs. I write all the time, and I love what I'm writing so much more than I did when I was younger. Why's that? Partially because when you get older, you're liberated from worrying about whether it's going to be commercial, whether it's going to be a hit. There's something really deep about bearing witness. That's been a real gift for me, being my age and writing now."
"There are a lot of songs that Sheryl Crow is happy to explain. She can tell you all about the upheaval in her life when she penned Leaving Las Vegas, and about the election night that sparked Run Baby Run. She can even detail the heartbreak of watching her mother fade away to Alzheimer's disease that led to her more recent song Forever."
Sheryl Crow keeps the identity of the famous rocker immortalized in 'My Favorite Mistake' private. She recounts personal inspirations for songs such as Leaving Las Vegas, Run Baby Run, and Forever, drawn from upheaval, election-night emotion, and her mother's decline to Alzheimer's. She appears on the MGM+ series Words + Music, an adaptation of an Audible podcast, alongside John Legend, Elvis Costello, and Alanis Morissette. The nine-time Grammy winner noted that aging liberated her from commercial concerns, allowing deeper songwriting that bears witness. She criticized artificial intelligence as a creative shortcut while preparing to record an hour-long episode.
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