Paul Simon leaned on dreams he had while sleeping to create his latest studio album, "Seven Psalms." "The dream said, 'You're working on a piece called 'Seven Psalms,'" Simon recently shared with CBS News.
He told the outlet that he woke up, wrote down the idea on a legal pad in his cabin in Texas where he lives with his wife of over 30 years, Edie Brickell.
He said since the idea came to him in a dream, he needed to "wait 'til there's clarification" on what he's supposed to do. Lucky for Simon, he got that clarification. "Yeah, it did come, as guitar pieces," he told the outlet.
Simon shared that the words for his album came to him later, again through a dream. His entire creative process behind his most recent album will be showcased in an upcoming documentary, "In Restless Dreams." In the documentary, Simon said, "I would start to wake up two or three times a week between 3:30 and 5:00 in the morning, and words would come.
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