It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm.
I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'.
It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose, but it has a nonromantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.
I love a natural look in pictures.