The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.

When you invest your life, you reproduce your life.

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.

That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.