I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.
Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.
For me, the choreography always comes from the music.
Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
I think that there was a fad where everyone said, 'I want you to create a signature step for my artist.' The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?
To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.
Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
