Songwriting Partnerships Quotes

And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally.

I've learned a lot from Dave Stewart; he's a serial collaborator. He's co-written songs with more people than anybody I know - like the most incredible people too.

Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.

I've always written by myself. I've never been in a situation where the whole band sat in a room and wrote a song. I don't work that way.

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

I fell in love with Nashville and wrote with some of the best songwriters here.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.