Songwriting Is As Much A Craft As

It Is So Important For Me To Try, And Having Tried I Look Back On Failure And Success As If It Were All The Same.

I Had The Notion That I Wanted To Write The Great Dirty American Novel, So I Went To Roanoke College On The Gi Bill.

Make Your Melodies Simple Enough So That The Average Person Can Hum Them.

I Am A Fan Of History.

I Never Fixed A Story. I Didn't Make Judgments, I Let The Listener Make Judgments. When I Got To The End Of The Story, If It Had A Moral, I Let The Listener Find It.