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Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

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

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.