We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

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.

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.

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.

I am wealth, I am abundance, I am Cosmic Ordering.

War can't bring peace only understanding and love can do that.

Your true destiny is desperately waiting on you to start thinking, acting, and walking with faith and courage.

The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined.

But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.