Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening..

I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all of us. When an artist becomes re….

Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to be-though I'd never be a choreog….

Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or only to rap or to gospel ….

I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how to write a better song. Talking about this idea of it ….

So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be, and I let it take me along. So….

I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of the imagination a….

In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't care. Sometimes they'….

We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer, produ….

Years ago when I was in a cover band and we were playing dances, that was quite a different thing. You were there as part of an event. When you're a ….