I wanted to write for Broadway.

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.

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

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

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

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.

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