The Gift
Alec Wilkinson’s 2002 Profile of the singer, who regards writing songs as the effort to find form for sounds he hears in his head.
"I always feel that the situation is serious. I'm in a vacuum, it's a dearth, and then there's something — a few notes, a phrase — and I say, 'I guess there's something,' but it's so small that I don't even know whether to count it." — Paul Simon on songwriting