Paul Simon | My Music: ‘The analysis is unimportant – if the song is beautiful then it lasts’

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon on memories of Mahler, working with the vocal ensemble VOCES8, and on the dream-inspired origins of his new album, Seven Psalms

Paul Simon (illustration: Philip Bannister)

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