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"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."
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"Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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