So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought..

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometim….

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is diffic….

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them..

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pain….

I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes….

I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too muc….

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me..

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

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves..

I think that's one of the problems with downloading mps these days. You never really get a chance to attune to a different logic, a different musical….

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..

To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great to be performing so close to ….

Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to ….

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs..

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me..