Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and ….

Do something about your life now..

Is anything accidental?.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetica….

Don't be afraid of your own power..

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it..

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or an….

Where your life leads you, you must go.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be..

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song..

Nature is always hinting at us..

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall..

Hearing your voice and your instrument kind of breathe in the room, it affects the way you perform the songs. For instance, if you have that reverb, ….

There's only of him, she thought, and he's right here..

I've tended to write lyrics alone. The emotion of the melody comes first. But what stimulates us are usually these dreamy minor chords. We all feel w….

Only Once In Your Life.

What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way….

All we have, all we are, are clichés..

Happiness is the only thing I understand..

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song..

My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family, who are agriculturalists, who we….