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" If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. "

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" A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by. "

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" It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. "

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" I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive. "

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" Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves. "

" I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside. "

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" You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know. "

" I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. "

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