C.A.Keith Quotes

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

I am a romantic, I admit it.

The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

I don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it here.

At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc.

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

I've gone through hell and back.

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

My feeling is the moment the theatre is not full you have to do something else. But most people somehow think 'If we did it better, they would come'. No. They don't come.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart

More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan.

I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.

There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

Rap - so many words, so little said.

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.

What I would like, I think, is to live a while longer. But not again.

Leave my diapers moist in the back seat of your Rolls Royce

I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?