Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

We can be lonely together

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.