Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.

With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?

But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.