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

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else, it becomes more than just a song. It defines relationships.

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

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.