On Paul Simon’s 15th and latest album, Seven Psalms, the veteran songwriter ruminates on belief, meaning and mortality. He invited Q’s Tom Power to his home near Austin, Texas, to discuss the inspiration for the record and the big questions it explores.
The dream was so powerful it roused him from his sleep in the middle of the night, and he wrote it down.
While Simon was unsure how to begin writing his psalms — sacred hymns used in Christian and Jewish worship — he started by composing guitar pieces, and then, after a year or so, the words came to him, again while he slept. "Maybe three times a week, I would wake up between the hour of 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. with words coming, and I would just write them down," Simon told Power.
"I would say it was terrifying, but at first, I just took it as a real annoyance. I didn't think it was permanent. I didn't know why this was happening," he said.
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