“One other thing, if it’s possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.”

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

We became the songs we wrote.

There’s so much fear involved in trying to do something you don’t know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

I think that most writers who wait until they’re inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

It’s amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

It’s very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there’s no creative crop to harvest.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

No matter what you do, you’ll never run away from you.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Cynthia’s lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn’t express themselves.

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

But all development programs of the United States and the European countries unfortunately exclude the private sector, which could make investments based on profitability.

Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing.