Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

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.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

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

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

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.