Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.