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I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

Composing music is hard work.

'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.

Penn and I want to write a record together.