Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself.

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.

You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.