It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Enjoy the films I do, get entertained, get your money's worth, and when you leave the theatre, leave it all behind!

I wish we didn't have to be nude to be noticed... But given the game as it exists, women make decisions. For instance, the Miss America contest is, in all of its states... the single greatest source of scholarship money for women in the United States.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.