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.

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.

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

I'm only interested in Libya if we keep the oil. If we don't keep the oil, I'm not interested.

If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.