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

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"We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs."
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"We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs."

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"We became the songs we wrote."
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"We became the songs we wrote."

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

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

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"We've written something like 900 songs in all."
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"We've written something like 900 songs in all."

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"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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"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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"The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high."
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"The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high."

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"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."
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"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."

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

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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."
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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."

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"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."
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"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."

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

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

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"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."
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"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."

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

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

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

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"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."
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"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."

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"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."
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"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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