If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic a….

Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk..

I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good... They've midwived a lot of….

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There….

It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I went to college in Dallas, and whe….

When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from somethi….

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling..

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring….

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it se….

I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about 'Young Lion'. It's ….

How can you live in the Northeast?.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through..

I like to do something I fear..

The things which must be must be for the best..

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk o….

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find..

One must as willingly be nothing, as something..

If Russia were to do something that it could do, it looks like it might even be preparing to do, to invade Ukraine and essentially to dismember it, t….

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on.

I'm only interested in poetry..