We became the songs we wrote.

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

I grew up with Thundercats and She-Ra: Princess Of Power. That was sort of my take on fantasy: the women after-school cartoon world.

I have a huge issue with blackface.

In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.