Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Nice is different than good.

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.