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.

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.

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.

She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.

A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood

Life would be better if the Leafs would make the playoffs. Life would be perfect if they’d win the Stanley Cup.

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.

I need to have a cheesesteak.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

Aint nothin you can tell her Yeah she get the mozarella

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.