You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know..

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability..

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

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

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

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

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

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

We became the songs we wrote..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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