I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself..

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else ha….

The profound nature of our existence is that we are able at any moment to connect to anyone, anywhere. History is there to remind us of how far weve ….

Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The en….

Those that innovate the future understand history the best..

Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny..

Success isn't something that occurs. Success is something that you create.

You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months..

Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me a….

I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fr….

People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace..

I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that, do somethin….

A lot of times you can write a scene with a specific song in mind, and then you lay it over the image, and it kills it. I can never figure out why ce….

I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing o….

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone….

I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that none of us knew what was a hi….

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work..

I must have true love or nothing..

Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head..

I sometimes think 'Gordon' must be the most bootlegged album in U.S history, since it sold only 200,000 copies in the country, yet 800,000 kids know ….