I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.

The soul on earth is an immortal guest.

Yielding is the manner of the Way.

A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.