I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.