It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

I didn't want to be anyone else.

If you have only answers and no questions, chances are high that you will never know new things.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it won't change the fact that they are upset.

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.

Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.