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

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

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

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.