We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society..

She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of late fell away. The woo….

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself..

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs..

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because….

See the gift that change delivers..

I love new questions..

They did nothing wrong their time here has ended.

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs..

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl..

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded..

A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when ….

There's a vast ecosystem for music outside of Myspace and Facebook and you need to make sure that your music is in as many hands as possible. I wante….

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it..

"I'm Black". I think that's the best song I ever made in my whole life..

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in anothe….

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy….

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They mus….

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work..

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand..

Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget..