A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

May you find new strength to accomplish your daily work.

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

To be honest, I don’t think there’s any other show like ‘Doctor Who’ at all.

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.