Paul Simon has won 16 Grammys, helped sell over 125 million records, and earned two separate inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but when the timeless troubadour made his Stern Show debut Wednesday morning he seemed far less concerned with sales figures and industry accolades than with how his diverse catalog of genre-bending music has been shaped by those who enjoy it.

“One of the tenets I have of songwriting is this: the listener completes the song. You sing whatever lyric you know, and that’s what the song is. And very often people sing the lyric, and they have words that are different,” he told Howard. “Rarely, but sometimes, they have a better understanding of what the song is than [I did] when I wrote it. It’s valid. It’s pleasurable to me as a writer to have this other revelation come to me from what the person hears.”

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