They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.