I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.
You know, I'm, like, a smart person.
Don't be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to be like them or like them.
We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things.
I had crazy experience when I was talking to voters at the Nevada caucus the other night in Vegas. Voter after voter after voter, these are Republican primary voters, caucus goers, saying I don`t listen to Fox anymore. I can`t trust Fox anymore. I`m over them. And these were all [Donald] Trump supporters who he had successfully sort of pried their trust away from the thing they have been trusting for years.
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living
I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.