Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.

Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.

I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.

Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.

Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.

How lonely it is!To be drowning, in a placewhere everyone can swim.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.

No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.