I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.

You’re a gorgeous siren who could lure anybody into your arms. But I must go before I deliciously fall under your spell.

Hauntingly active as they share space with the living, the dead refuse to give up their undead residency.

Sharks don’t eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can’t swim.

Things that change history tend to be organized.

The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference.

The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.

The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

I don't like going away from my children.