She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.

How come a boy can be so stupid, but a Daddy, who actually used to be a BOY himself, can be so wonderful?

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hewTo honesty, integrity, and respectAll others without regard to intellect

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.