The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.
I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.
When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.
I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.
What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat. , Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est. ]