Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought.

A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.