Neil Diamond

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with…

— Neil Diamond

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing…

— Neil Diamond

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was…

— Neil Diamond

“BE Lost On a painted sky Where the clouds are hung For the poet's eye You may find him If you may…

— Neil Diamond

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time…

— Neil Diamond

I had always held everything in before.

— Neil Diamond

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

— Neil Diamond

One of the things I've been panting to do, in fact, is write some music for a fencing-ballet, the movements, music and…

— Neil Diamond

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

— Neil Diamond

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

— Neil Diamond

Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.

— Neil Diamond

I thank the Lord for the night time.

— Neil Diamond

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

— Neil Diamond

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

— Neil Diamond

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .

— Neil Diamond

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I…

— Neil Diamond

Being lost is worth the being found.

— Neil Diamond

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old…

— Neil Diamond

You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the…

— Neil Diamond

I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because…

— Neil Diamond

Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.

— Neil Diamond

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

— Neil Diamond

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

— Neil Diamond

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

— Neil Diamond

September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still…

— Neil Diamond