Byline: Phillip Zonkel Staff Writer
CONTRARY TO popular belief, Aimee Mann doesn't follow the creed of a tortured artist.
The renowned musician, whose raw lyrics and smooth vocals paint emotional portraits of destructive and twisted love patterns, rejects the notion that a songwriter has to be on a downward spiral to find the Muse.
``It's really irritating when people talk about, 'Don't you have to be tortured to write certain songs?' It bugs me because it goes about it the wrong way,'' Mann says. ``You don't have to be tortured to write a song. That isn't how it works. But you can develop the ability to write a song as a way of compensating for an inability …
