To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

An audience will let you know if a song communicates. If you see them kind of falling asleep during the song, or if they clap at the end of a song, then they're telling you something about the song. But you can have a good song that doesn't communicate. Perhaps that isn't a song that you can sing to people; perhaps that's a song that you sing to yourself. And some songs are maybe for a small audience, and some songs are for a wide audience. But the audience will let you know pretty quickly.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.