I love having other people sing my songs.

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

I like playing in other projects.

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

Mom smiled and brushed my hair away from my face. “You can call yourself whatever youwant.”“Okay. Sophie Awesome Sparkle-Princess it is.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

He does not keep company with those who wish to harm him.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.