Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.