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"And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being."

"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."

"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."

"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"

"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
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"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."

"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."

"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are."

"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."

"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."

"You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know."
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