Sir Elton John has told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that he has a "strange" way of writing when it comes to creating new material.
Elton's new album is out in February
Teaming up with Bernie Taupin for his songs, Elton provides the music whilst Bernie brings the lyrics, but despite their collaboration, the pair work completely independently of one another.
Elton told Jimmy: "I just go to the studio and there's 24 lyrics waiting for me and I look through them and see which one I want to start with, and then I try to write a song. I never, ever know what the lyrics are gonna be up front.
"When I first started working with Bernie it was exactly the same as it is now; I would get a lyric, I would go away and write the melody and play it to him. That's never changed. It's the same thing now and it's as exciting now as it was then.
"So if I write a song on this album and I've finished it I go and bring him in and say, 'Listen, this is the song,' and then the band come in and learn it and we put it down.
"There must be some people who write like that but (I don't know them). We've been writing 49 years together, this year, and I don't try to analyse it. It's strange but it works."
With new record 'Wonderful Crazy Night' out this February, the singer was determined to deliver an upbeat record.
Quizzed on what would happen if Bernie was not in a good mood when writing the lyrics, Elton laughed: "I check that out beforehand.
"I said, 'I want to make sure that we make a joyous record'. He's very happy at the moment, I'm very happy at the moment. Sometimes the moons don't meet (but) we were both in the same place and he came up with the goods."
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