If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting..

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'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 ….

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….

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day..

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me....

The devil wanders into my soul..

I was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they always put music in it, which is w….

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so mu….

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too..

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like ….

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….

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..

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage..

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow..

Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crop….

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people..

I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul..

Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in..

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am..

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work..