You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

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.

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

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.

Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.

But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.