"The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that? If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction." - Alex Chilton, born this day in 1950.