You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

I'm most proud of the ambulance service. This is emergency work. Many times Edhi ambulances are the first to arrive and save people's lives. I'm very proud of this.

You don't have to follow anybody's rules.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Obviously, guns are a way to protect yourself.

Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.