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"Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in."
"There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next."
"Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in."
"Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy."
"Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author."
"Maybe I think too much for my own good."
"The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts."
"I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write."
"Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill."
"We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away."
"And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow."
"Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free."
"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
"The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh."
"I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush."
"If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal."
"I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get."
"I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me."
"Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it."
"Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that's all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for."