Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

Stay in your bed as long as you want. Your money just left for work.

Don't ever underestimate the value and power of doing nothing sometime.

I heard a rumor that I had...left the earth

Change is an action not just an epiphany!

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.

No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'