The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they were hits. I didn't know what the hits were. I never thought that 'Loves Me Like A Rock' was going to be a hit, or 'Mother And Child Reunion,' or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They didn't sound like what the hits sounded like at the time. Radio was more open to things that weren't exactly what every other hit was.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.