What's a "Moral Compass Cricket Thingy"?

[Moonface]

No. While I might be able to B.S. an instrumental if I really tried, I suck at poetry, and don't even want to attempt the process of writing lyrics for a song. I prefer to arrange music that already exists. It's much easier.

Do you ever get ideas of what you'd write about for song subjects even if you aren't able to put it down into a lyrical format? Or like think of maybe a singular line that might be whatever you call the line that gets repeated a lot throughout the song even if the rest of the chorus it's within changes but nothing to really go with it?

If that last one seems oddly specific it's only because as a teenager I'd come up with a singular line or a bit of a chorus piece (not necessarily good in a writing sense but at least fit to some form of a rhythm) but would never manage to come close to anything for a verse or such.