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

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.