Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
We became the songs we wrote.
I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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.