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

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.

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.

It's easier to runReplacing this pain with something numbIt's so much easier to goThan face all this pain here all alone.

A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.