If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.