I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.