"I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through."

“If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.”

“Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.”

Source : Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2008.

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”

“Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.”

Source : "The World Doesn't Need Another Rhyming Tooth Fairy Story: A Conversation with Children's Book Agent Andrea Brown". Interview with Anna Olswanger, www.underdown.org. 1998.

“Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.”

“Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.”

“An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid”

“The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.”