Walking beside you I want for nothing.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’.

Nurture youroriginality, don’t ever bury itaway.

Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

I've never read one book about my father.