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[On how The Wild Heart differs from Bella Donna] It's
like Bella Donna's heart is wild all of a sudden. It has that James Dean/Natalie
Wood feeling to it. It's just Bella Donna a little more reckless. She's
just more sure of herself now, so she's taking a few more chances. I'm very pleased
with the album because there are no holds barred on it. It's real strong and emotional.
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The verses, the Something in my heart died last night/ One more chip off
an all ready broken heart/ I think the heart broke long ago/ That's when I needed
you, the second verse, I run around like a spirit in flight/ Fearlessness
is fearlesness/ I will not forget this night/ Dare my wild heart, that was
written a good year later. Probably, what I'm saying ~ One more chip off an
all ready broken heart ~ is probably saying that some of the love that I probably
search for always, was what I needed when Lindsey and I were in love. You know,
thats when I needed to know it was all right. That's when nobody told me. |
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When I say, Wild in the darkest places of your mind/That's where I needed
you, I mean the things that you think about in the wildest places of your
mind, that you don't ever tell anybody about. Uh, only the children lie hopelessly
enchanted. That's how we are. Hopeless-ly enchanted. Wild in the darkest places
of your mind/Don't blame it on me/Blame it on my wild heart. Yeah, that's
those places that many people don't even have. But you see, my audience has it. |
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[The title track the Wild Heart says] 'don't blame it on me,
blame it on my wildness.' It's real black-hearted; it has an air about it that's
so intense that it just wrenches your heart. |
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The Wild Heart…that song is a demo, recorded in Dallas with my
songwriter friend Sandy [Stewart]…and a kid named Brad who's incredible,
and the three of us girls sing it live; and it's the title track of the album,
and certainly nobody, not one of us, ever believed that this would see the light
of day. But I said, if this record is going to be called The Wild Heart,
then the Wild Heart song has to be a killer, or I'll have to change the title…But
Wild Heart is wild and it's exactly what I wanted it to be: the Wild
Heart is all the darkest places of your mind, it's a real intense song…I
played it for Tom Petty and he said, 'this is an epic', and that's just what it
is, the real story of what we all go through, everybody ~of how wild our hearts
really are, and we can't help it; because this is just the way it is. |
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The [title of the song] Wild Heart probably came - I don't know where
it came from - it just came out of the air, but before Bella Donna. …[Singing]
Something in my heart died last night. That was all written January, February
of ~ I don't know ~ last year when I first moved into my horrifyingly bad, awful,
terrible house in the Pacific Palisades. That ~ and I was all alone with no phones
and like a mountain woman you know ~ no fire no heat, no cooling and alone right
after the Bella Donna tour. So I freaked out and wrote Sable on Blond and
the verses to Wild Heart. Me and my piano. |
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And everybody's heart is wild, so it's not like I've got any kind of hold on
it, 'cause this entire album was written for everybody, and their wild heart.
This was very much meant to be shared and given to people, to have them just love
the idea that they have wild hearts, 'cause I love that, I love that... |
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The
song the Wild Heart is kind of an abstract song....Wild Heart, the
Where is the reason/ Don't blame it on me/ Blame it on my wild heart, that
was written in New York, Quogue. I mean at the same time that Enchanted
was written. A long, long time ago, right at the same time that Bella Donna
came out [1981].
It
was born in New York, and it's just intense, there are some wild words in it that
just sort of popped up. I think that people are gonna love 'Wild Heart'...it's
the one song that I go back to time and time again and listen to. There's something
about the vocal that just gives me shivers, because it's just so real. People
will understand that probably more than a lot of other things, because it definitely
takes you through your nervous breakdown, and through your recovery and it takes
you through your survival.
