Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Love is the reason for it all.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Until the police internal affairs system starts prosecuting and firing a substantial number of corrupt and incompetent police officers, I will not be lighting it up blue!

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

I mean, I really loved the mix of personal health and, kind of, community health and justice, and I really saw how they were inseparable.

Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.

I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.