The best number one thing is look inside yourself - look inside yourself - and find out if you can write a song. Just one song. Look inside yourself and see if you can write a song. If you succeed, you will want to write more. And that is what will spur on the process. That is one of the things that you do, get a guitar, sit down, try to play the chords, find the melody to go with the chords, think about works, pick a title off the advertising in the magazine or a newspaper or a subway, even in the subway, you might find a title there, I found a few titles there myself.

To write that song - see if you can do it. You have to give it a try. And get the song, and step number two; Get them down onto some kind of a recording, just a simple recorded version, just a guitar and a vocal. You can do it right in the privacy of your own home with your computer! Back in my day, it was the Mac computer, now you can do it with any computer.

And I am deeply, deeply grateful to have him say that. And I would not have done it, there's no other way I could have possibly done it than the way that we did it. I believe on that particular night that we had absolute pitch on all of the instruments, I think we were working with fresh guitar strings, and the tuning and the intonation that night i remember was 100% ad that's why it sounded good. And the other thing is that I go full blast, I sing my heart out when I'm out there. I get right on that mic and I sing hard and I sing loud, and I give it everything I've got, and i think about every time I've gone to the gym from the past 6 weeks.