Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

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.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.