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"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."
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"I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside."
"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are."
"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."
"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."
"I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs."
"It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest."
"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."
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