It has been a case of the extremes for me, Jerry. Some of my better songs have derived from 'misery' of a sort, but some others have come from great happiness. What has always been necessary for me is the mind set with which I started writing the song. If I know I won't be able to maintain it, and if I know the song will be 'good' (in my own opinion), then I will simply work through. One of the things I wrote that I personally feel is a 'better' thing I've done, took about sixty hours straight. It has a unity, though it's maybe a little too sombre for my taste today, these 30 years later. Another was a labour that had a deadline to it, and I was able to do that in about 40 hours. In my opinion, however, there is always a spark that leads to good writing of any sort, a germ of an idea. This is a thread I will follow closely. Ya done it again.