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There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me.

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.