You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
PAUL SIMONAnd so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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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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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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