I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

I say vote for Trump. Vote for Trump. We're going to do a lot of thing that are going to make this country much better. We're going to do tremendous things.

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

Buildings are forms of performances.

China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

A big lesson that I'm always having to be reminded of is, you can't control how you feel, but you can control how you respond.