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Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.