Nick Lowe, rock musician and producer, comments on aping the style of his heroes as a young songwriter:<\/p>\n
… I hadn\u2019t been writing songs very long and, like everybody else who starts out doing anything creative, you start off plundering your heroes\u2019 style and catalogue. When you\u2019ve exhausted that, you move on to somebody else and do the same thing with them, and the day comes when you\u2019re rewriting your latest hero\u2019s works, and you put in a little bit of the first guy\u2019s thing that you ripped off, a middle eight, or a bridge, and as it goes on you include more and more of these bits and pieces that you\u2019ve ripped off, until, suddenly, you haven\u2019t ripped them off at all. They\u2019ve actually become your style. And then all you need is a good idea. And then you really are in business. I remember having this idea\u2014\u201cWhat\u2019s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding\u201d\u2014and almost falling over in astonishment that I hadn\u2019t heard this before, that it really was an original notion.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n