You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
From Cynthia Weil
My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.
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.
There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.
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.
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.
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.
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
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