“Be very, very open. If you turn a lyric over to a melodicist, and the melodicist comes back with a minor tango when you had a major polka in mind, and your first reaction is violently negative, don’t say anything. Give it time. Really learn the song in your mind using this new input. It still may not work, but on the other hand, it may give your lyric an entirely new and improved quality that had never occurred to you.” -- Peter Berryman