Nobody Knows A Hit Before It's A

My Best Album Is Called In Search Of A Song. That Was My Best Shot Right There. My Finest Hour, As They Say. I Could Listen To The Whole Thing All The Way Through. There's Nothing Really Crammed Into It.

Songwriting Is As Much A Craft As A Talent.

I Don't Know Why Songwriters Struggle. They Have To, I Guess. If You're A Young Songwriter, Quit Struggling. It Makes You Look Bad.

I Think The Nature Of Songwriters Is That They Are Philosophers, And Philosophers Have A Bent Towards Poetry And Songwriting, So I Think That The Two Run Around Together. The Nature Of A Songwriter Could Be Philosophical. Looking For Universal Ideas, A Way To Say Things, Get The Story Across As A Means Of Entertaining, Provoking Thought.

I Have My Own Religion. I'm Sort Of One-quarter Baptist, One-quarter Catholic, One-quarter Jewish.