I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.
Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.
You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.
The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.
I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.