As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone. " She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you. " "I am quite certain it is my gentlemanly duty. " "To eat cake?" "It is one of the more appealing of my gentlemanly duties," he allowed.
Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.
The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.