When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.
“Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.”
“I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.”