My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.