We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

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.

I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?

It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.

Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.