The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

Success is most often a matter of competing with yourself for what is important to you as an individual.

The greatest weapon you have, and the one that will see you through anything, is a settled determination that you will achieve your dream.

An old fool is the worst of all fools.

You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem.

He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

I don't know if you've ever had just five dollars in the bank, but I've found that if that's all you have, you can't get it out.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.