I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

How can you live in the Northeast?

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.