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

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.

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.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

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.

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.

I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.

I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

I'm not recognised much at all.

True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.