1936 • American • Musician
People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.
The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.
I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.
