seeing them. we usually write our lyrics in the studio itself. that seems to work through thick and thin, it always works for us. >> it's very hard to describe how we write, but the only way i can describe how we work at it is becoming one. mont >> maurice had unique insight into the way robin and i thought. he would just be filling around on the piano, and he would suddenly play something and go, what was that? it was trying to please us and the way that would always try to please each other. and that, sometimes, was the birth of a song. >> all of a sudden we would wake each other's little instincts up in the melodies would come. one of us would hear it taking shape, then it all blossoms. >> they would say, okay we are ready to roll. then they play the song, i worked accords oh, any figure out what he was gonna do on the drums. he would say all right, here we go bang, bang, bang. down it went. and that spontaneity came out in songs.