Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading..

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside..

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate..

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around..

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world..

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play..

You have to live a life to become a writer..

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then….

Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to duplicate it. That's something Nashville always tries ….

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist..

Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point..

What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that conditi….

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment..

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music..

Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Bottic….

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow..

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong..

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you..

What I like best about music is when time goes away..

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song..