I don't write songs, songs write me.

Love is lovelier The second time around.

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.

What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but personal substitution.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.

I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.