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.

...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.

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

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

The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.