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

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.

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.

If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes.

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.

I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.

You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectation unique to you, and your infinitesimal heart?

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows