There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.