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

True contentment comes with empathy.

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

Walking beside you I want for nothing.

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.

To My MotherYou too, my mother, read my rhymesFor love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once moreThe little feet along the floor.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.

Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors].

I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.