There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.