I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
PAUL SIMONArtie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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