But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and all that. That would be something, to get your name in there.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen [laughter]-that is true happiness.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.