I find I'm an uncertain quantity when it comes to such work; whiles I'll be able to dash off the verses of a song as fast as I can slip the words doon upon the paper.

Whiles, again, I'll seem able never to think of a rhyme at a', and I just have to wait till the muse will visit me again.
There's no telling how the idea for a song will come.

But I ken fine how a song's made when once you have the idea! It's by hard work, and in no other way.

There's nae sic a thing as writing a song easily--not a song folk will like.

Don't let anyone tell you any different--or else you may be joining those who are sae sure I've refused the best song ever written--theirs! The ideas come easily--aye! Do you mind a song I used to sing called "I Love a Lassie ?" I'm asked ower and again to sing it the noo, so I'm thinking perhaps ye'll ken the yin I mean.