Occupation: Musician Birth: October 9, 1969
I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference..
In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cau….
There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sun….
I think I've been interested in music since I was little..
I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I….
As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a ….
You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same; the human beings' articulation of ….
I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you..
I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like ….
You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on their head so that they ….
I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day..
Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... ….
I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano..
I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer..
I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk..
I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not..
Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives ther….
First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too..
As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville,….
Shame is the shadow of love..
People want to build musicians into mythical beings..