Everyone Tells Tiny Lies, What's Important Really

The Last Collaborator Is Your Audience ... When The Audience Comes In, It Changes The Temperature Of What You've Written. Things That Seem To Work Well -- Work In A Sense Of Carry The Story Forward And Be Integral To The Piece -- Suddenly Become A Little Less Relevant Or A Little Less Functional Or A Little Overlong Or A Little Overweight Or A Little Whatever. And So You Start Reshaping From An Audience.

No One Has Ever Known Me As Clearly As You. No One Has Ever Shown Me That Love Allows Everything. Not Pretty Or Safe Or Easy But Something I Never Knew. Love Within Reason, That Isn't Love And I Learned That From You.

I Get Some Flak For And Some Resistance From Colleagues For Because I'm Interested In Storytelling. I Mean What I Like About Songwriting Is Songs Used To Tell A Story.

It's Not So Much Do What You Like As It Is That You Like What You Do.

I Was Never Much Of A Reader. I'm A Slow Reader, Which Is Unusual, Because I'm So Into Language And I Love Words So Much. But It's Hard For Me To Read.