cole porter

• hem de der ki cole porter " first i think of an idea for a song and then i fit it to a title. then i go to work on a melody. then i write the lyric -the end first- that way it has a strong finish. it's terribly important for a song to have a strong finish. i do the lyrics the way i'd do a crossword puzzle. i try to give myself a meter which will make the lyric as easy as possible to write, but without being banal... i try to pick for my rhyme words of which there is a long list with the same ending."