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

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

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

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

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

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