A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.

It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

The phrasing didn't work as well.

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.