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.

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

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.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can’t figure out how we ever did it.

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

I can’t seem to write young enough anymore.

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.

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

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