I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

The more you know, the more you know you know nothing.

If you’re trying to tell me you’re not used to mattering to someone, I might just bleed out right here on the floor.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.

Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.