A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that mom….

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get….

Your patience will be rewarded..

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy..

The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out o….

The love in the Midwest is way different from New York - people accepted me like one of their own, and they showed me a bunch of love, so I did a big….

I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this other happiness, and this emotional respon….

It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always….

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression..

From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over the….

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson..

I find it very fascinating that one person or a group of people can get together as a choir and come up with a song that ends up inspiring people to ….

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that..

I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappea….

The way radio is working right now, you can't put out anything just based on the producer's name. The general public and radio are so selective and f….

Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly ….

I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song..

To get large groups of people to dance, there needs to be something accessible about the music. The beat can't be too esoteric, but unless we're talk….

I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best cha….

The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out of me still, but ….

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other m….