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.

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

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

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

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

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

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