I kept leaning on him and I finally said, 'Mel, this isn't fair.' So I asked him to come on board as a co-writer with credit. And he was happy to do it.
Quotes about co-writer (5 Quotes)
My co-writer and myself were talking about the whole thing, and he just stood up and said, 'It makes you want to just look these people in the eye and say, 'Have you forgotten' ... I got chills all over my body because I knew that was the title of the song that we were going to write that day.
Williams herself drew criticism from Stuart. I don't think it was necessary for us to know that Jeff was a cross-dresser. What did she gain by that ... It's something I didn't want to know about him. It's a minus quality. Actually, there were some things I wrote about some personalities that my daughter co-writer Sylvia Thompson thought were a little strong. She said, 'Mother, you didn't need to say that,' and I didn't say it.
When my co-writer and I were growing up, our parents listened to country radio, but we listened to pop. But we realized they played some of the same music, ... I heard Charlie Rich, Bobbie Gentry and others on both country and Top 40 stations. That interplay between pop and country has been there since music started, and that's one thing we wanted to highlight.
I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the trut