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

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.

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

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

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.

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.