Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.