I wanted to write for Broadway.

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

I am more feminist than feminists.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

If she is attractive, I can't perform with her; if she is not, then I won't.

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.