Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.