“I’m always surprised whenever a song pops into my head,” says Ann Hampton Callaway. It’s a funny and revealing thing for any successful songwriter to say, especially one whose compositions have been recorded and performed by some of the biggest names in the business – among them, Barbra Streisand, Carole King, Patti LuPone, Liza Minnelli, Karrin Allyson, and Michael Feinstein, to name a few. As for how the muse appears, Callaway says, “Sometimes it can be a musical idea first, or other times it’s a line I hear or even a title. It’s always an ‘a-ha’ moment. One second, there’s nothing, and the next it’s all right there. If I’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that I have to be open to receiving that gift whenever it happens.”

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