Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.