I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
I think old people should just be old and go away.
I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
The doctor in Murare is old - old for anybody. He is especially old for a doctor and especially old for an African. But he doesn´t have the luxury of retirement to look forward to. There aren´t enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become d...
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He feared the premature old age of missed opportunities.
There are no old friendships in business.
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
