We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

I don't think that you should be per­fectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates consider­able personal problems.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.