Christopher Cross Quotations

I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.