Zitat des Tages von Cynthia Weil:
I can't seem to write young enough anymore.
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
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.
We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.
But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.
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.
A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.
I wanted to write for Broadway.
Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.
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.
We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.
We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
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.
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.
We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.