I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.

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.

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.

She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.

I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

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