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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
I am just tired of writing about heroes that we're dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.
I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.
I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.
When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.
I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
