We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.

It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.

If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.

I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

I am an inventor of music.

If you can't answer the question 'What is VR adding to that experience?' - and it should be more than just a gee-whiz thing - then that project shouldn't be in VR. You're not taking full advantage of your medium.

I just don't like to dwell on stuff.

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.