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

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

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

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

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

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

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.