I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade and a new kind of music was emerging.
I was very fortunate, though, to have a writing partner that truly is brilliant with words and at the same time very soulful.