"It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning."

-- Iron & Wine

#Song Quotes #Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes

“When I'm doing shows I don't need much from a city. All I'm looking for is a good meal and a decent spot to have a couple drinks.”
“The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.”
“I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!”
“I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.”
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.”
“If you donâ€™t find the time, if you donâ€™t do the work, you donâ€™t get the results.”
“TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.”
“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

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