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

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

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.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings.

JUST LIKE CANDY is a delicious, decadent treat.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.