"Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue"

"Music is my religion"

"Business is the salt of life"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"