I Always Get Very Calm With Baseball.

As Soon As Your Mind Knows That It's On And It's Supposed To Produce Some Lines, Either It Doesn't Or It Produces Things That Are Very Predictable. And That's Why I Say I'm Not Interested In Writing Something That I Thought About. I'm Interested In Discovering Where My Mind Wants To Go, Or What Object It Wants To Pick Up.

A Songwriter's Supreme Challenge Is Being Complex And Simple At The Same Time

It's Pointless To Be Critical Of Your Stuff Once It's Done. I Don't Spend A Lot Of Time Agonising Over It. It's Of No Importance Once It's Finished.

Although I Was Able To Study Music With Teachers, I Never Studied Lyric Writing. I Read Poetry, And I Read Other Lyricists. But They Were Never Writing In The Style Or The Form That I Was Interested In.

I Think My Hight Had The Most Significant Single Effect On My Existence, Aside From My Brain. In Fact, It's Part Of An Inferior-superior Syndrome. I Think I Have An Inferior Brain And An Inferior Stature, If You Really Want To Get Brutal About It.