Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now, and I couldn't be happier to have with me the

absolutely legendary songwriter Diane Warren who has her own album

The Cave Sessions Volume One coming out in the Spring. It's not an album where Diane sings, although she does

sing, it's actually an album where she kind of curated other singers to perform. And there's a first single times like this out that is a

really moving song with Darius Rucker singing but hopefully we'll talk about

Diane's entire amazing career.

Welcome.

Thank you. Yeah, it's better that other people are singing than me.

Oh, you can sing, I've heard it.

Yeah, well.

We were saying right now you're in a beautiful part of your studio. There is a sign behind you that says finish my song bitch and in fact at the moment you are mid songwriting you were you said that you just came from down the street and you have a song in process.

Yeah, it's really good, but I don't like the bridge so far so I was

working on I really I thought this was going to be a phone call not not a video thing and

then it's like okay maybe so maybe getting away from it from a little on so maybe

you're gonna actually help me.

You can help me cross that bridge. We'd be deeply honored. So you literally were

working on the bridge when you were yanked away from your piano? Yeah.

Fantastic.

Well, let's hope that is for the song's benefit and you weren't about to have a great breakthrough.

Yeah, you could have really fucked me up and not know, I'm just kidding.

Let's talk about without giving it away so some other songwriter steals the idea and

you know writes a different version and gets it out before you but so you're in the middle

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