Quotes from Neil Diamond

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And, in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.

I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

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

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

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

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

I thank the Lord for the night time.

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.

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

Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

The truth always stays the same.