You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path,… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think,… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share
It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no… — Paul Simon Copy Share
Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart. — Paul Simon Copy Share
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door. — Paul Simon Copy Share
...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of… — Paul Simon Copy Share
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is… — Paul Simon Copy Share
I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't… — Paul Simon Copy Share
I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really… — Paul Simon Copy Share
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. — Paul Simon Copy Share
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or… — Paul Simon Copy Share
A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience. — Paul Simon Copy Share
