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"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."

"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."

"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."

"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."

"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."

"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."

"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."
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