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"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."
Music
"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."
Direction
"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."
First
"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."
Life
"I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs."
Time
"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."
Wife
"It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive."
Nature
"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."
Success
"The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high."
Danger
"I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside."
Fear
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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