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When you write a song, a song has longevity.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.