Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
I feel that my whole life is a contribution.
Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.
I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?
There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know the importance of participating, not just being spectators. Millions of small groups around the world, that don't necessarily all agree with one another, are made up of people who are not just sitting back waiting for someone to do things for them. No one can prove anything, but of course if I didn't believe it had some kind of power, I wouldn't be trying to do it.
I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.
And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9. 7 in round figures.
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.