I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

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.

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.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

I believe and therefore I am.

If you are willing to persistently hold strong to your goals and dreams, it would only become a matter of time until impossibilities start to become possibilities in your life.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.

I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

Iran has always had a good relationship with Europe. The Middle East is Europe's neighbor, and we are a strong player in this region.

I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.