I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Pain is an inevitable part when you truly love.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady for a while.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.