Dionne Warwick says of the trio’s working methods: “I never give them any help during the actual writing of a song. They often say, and it’s true, that I change melodies many times, mostly by a note - an E or a C to a G. And if I ever feel that a lyric isn’t quite right, I tell Hal, and he changes it. Hal has changed whole verses for me because they weren’t comfortable [technically, or emotionally]. We all work together during the recording of a song. But Hal is the lyricist, Burt the composer and arranger, and I am the interpreter . . . [Concerning the trend toward singer-songwriter-hood in the early 1970’s,] “Most writers feel they are the best people to express their own feelings. We seem to be in a rather cultish time with the mushrooming of singer-songwriters, whether male or female. Some are good, a lot not that good, but I don’t feel left out because I don’t write my own songs. Carole King has a great many feelings we all share, and she expresses them very well. I’ve thought that since she was writing for the Shirelles.”