I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.