There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

You know bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet and you know there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere but putting it on paper is alas not so easy as looking at it.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies and TV series and stuff. But I never never read.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right you can fix it.

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

If there was no Black Sabbath I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster and I start that way the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.

Homer is new this morning and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper while I shave and bathe and dress.

I write early in the morning usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I've done the best I can with the morning show. I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup you have the morning papers you know it's got that feel to it that's what I wanted.

I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it that's what I wanted.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers or listen to what's on the news and you know how the world's going to change.

I'd always been a news junkie always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power control sexuality and race.

You know the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

I get up go and get a coffee and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

A city with one newspaper or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership is like a man with one eye and often the eye is glass.