The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open 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.

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

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

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

Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.

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

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

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.

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

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

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

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

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.

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