Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability..

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year..

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by..

You can get stale writing with each other for a while..

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction..

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves..

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you..

You have to be very brave in that first writing session..

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive..

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today..

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest..

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection..

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers..

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high..

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner..

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive..

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside..

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance..

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows..

Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?.

We became the songs we wrote..