Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

Love is the promise that guides me.

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to

There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

Write drunk; edit sober.

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

Going to a women's college made a big difference. It gave me the sense women could run things... and I just never thought that it made sense to give that up.

I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.