All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.