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.

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

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

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

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 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.