The session with those guys was really the moment, for me, where I felt like the record was clicking into the place I wanted it to be in.
We wrote tons of songs, and I think six of them are on the record, a couple of other ones will be on the next record, and he's a wonderful new addition to the family tree.
We always were in agreement, and we had a great time trusting each other to go too far and the songs are proof of that. We very rarely had any of those awkward co-writer moments where you go back and forth, "I don't like this." "Well, I don't like this either." Sometimes, when you're writing with somebody, it can get kind of fuzzy, and Dan and I never had that. Then, I wound up going back about six or seven times because Dan and I just clicked. because I wanted to kind of get out of Dodge for a minute, go to Minneapolis, get out of my comfort zone and work with him. So, I went to Minneapolis-I didn't want him to come to L.A. So, as Rick was hearing my songs, he felt right away that Dan would be somebody that shared the same musical sensibilities that I have, and could help me achieve the very fine balance that Rick and I were trying to get to on this record. One of the great things about Rick is that he's got a great sense as to what the right puzzle pieces are, to get in the room with the artist he's working with. JG: Dan is somebody who I'd heard his voice and heard his songs but had never really sat in a room properly with him.
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