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  • How long did it take you to write a song like "Yellow"?

  • 10 minutes.

  • Seriously? - Yeah.

  • That I mean, in other words, you heard it in your head?

  • I didn't hear that. (It) just came out, came through. I'll tell you exactly how it happened.

  • We were in Wales and my microphone was broken or something; I was waiting to record something else.

  • And I was thinking about Neil Young and I was starting to do a Neil Young impression just to try and make everyone giggle.

  • I love Neil Young.

  • So I was like, doing this and I was like, and it was very starry outside.

  • I was like, look at the stars like trying to do, I can't do Neil Young for shit, but that's how it came out, (I) was trying to do that.

  • I never told anybody that.

  • You started to do it. You started to do your Neil Young impression.

  • This is pretty good.

  • And then Yellow came out with the lyrics? - Yeah.

  • Could you play a little of that, the way you did at that time that you, that it first came out of you?

  • Yeah. I have to switch to a guitar. Is that cool?

  • Hey, if you're willing to do it, go ahead. - I'll bring it.

  • Switch to anything you want.

  • I'm happy with that.

  • I didn't know you play guitar too.

  • So I was just waiting like sound checking like this.

  • We had another song called Shiver, which is on our first record, which is, OK.

  • And, I was waiting to do that and then I was found this chord because I like to use strange tuning on the guitar.

  • So that chord made.

  • I liked it.

  • And then that chord.

  • So it's like, "Look at the stars."

  • Real Neil Young and then the rest just come out.

  • Come on, play a little.

  • In my voice or in my bad Neil young voice?

  • Do it in your voice. - OK.

  • Yeah, they were all yellow

  • ♫I came along

  • ♫I wrote a song for you

  • And all the things you do

  • And it was called Yellow

  • So then I took my turn

  • Oh, what a thing to have done

  • And it was all yellow

  • Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones

  • Turn into something beautiful

  • And you know, you know I love you so

  • You know I love you so

  • Wow, that is beautiful.

  • Now, that is a romantic song. - Yeah.

  • Were you in love with someone at the time you wrote that? - No.

  • That's not about a specific girl. - No, it's about all girls.

How long did it take you to write a song like "Yellow"?

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