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I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.