Paul Anka

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1,065 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Paul Anka | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

But the writer, and I respected everybody that wrote.

Always did.

He was right.

I was in my basement, and my dad bought me an old piano, and he knew I could sing, but he ultimately knew I wanted to write, and I sat in my basement.

People laughed at me.

I was spending my time just writing, you know?

Writing what I felt new.

I mean, is there anything more stupid than I'm so young and you're so old?

I mean, today I'm so old and you're so young.

But back then, I was just writing what I felt.

I'm sitting in church looking at this girl who wouldn't pay attention to me.

And that was it, man.

It was just the writer became so important in my life.

And then I slowly evolved.

It gets you to nature.

or nurture yeah when you get on the topic of nurture and nature what was it did you get it from your parents yeah because it's a great discussion to think of where did that come from what influenced you to build you into the character and what you've got yeah well the thing that all writers share is at some point we're alone in a room yeah with a blank piece of paper that's correct there's no chord there's no melody there's no lyric

Yeah.

Whatever that is saying it's getting better.

Yeah.

That's it.

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