Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a grea….

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sound….

Words are where most change begins..

They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all h….

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey.

I have seen the future! Go back!.

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it..

I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a lot of outtakes, songs that don't make the record..

You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings..

Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happen….

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen..

You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for ….

What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures..

Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospec….

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts..

Money has no religion except itself..

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology..

When I was a girl, I would make up songs for fun. Then I realized, after making them up, that I could remember how they went a week later - I remembe….

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was workin….

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times..

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-w….