It was a labor of love and they did really well.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

You've got to go down in order to feel better about yourself when you come up.

Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

O friends, no more these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!

Seriously, I ‘ve got to know if I need to protect you from people running with pencils." ~ Laney

And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.

[My family] is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not... They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.