For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.