Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

I was never conscious of any distractions other than hearing an incredible Goffin and King lyric and pushing harder to do better because they were so good..

We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.

The difference is that when those barren periods occur no one's waiting for a record from us, so they don't even notice we've been gone.

But actually the Nashville market is far more interesting, certainly lyrically, for me now than the pop market.

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.