Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.

The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.