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.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

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.

Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

We became the songs we wrote.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.