Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.