I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the cen….

There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sen….

Dance like nobody's watching..

To have a future we have to live and leave the present..

Patience is the road to wisdom..

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14..

While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is actually pretty good.'.

Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some ki….

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!.

We do not become. We simply are..

I won't ever stop until you're either the biggest thing around, or you're dead..

I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to work with her. To be able to play a s….

When you make a bet, you're saying something..

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all..

I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything..

I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and liste….

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very se….

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of t….

I never had the blues; the blues always had me..

I'm not playing up to pretend, I don't live above my means. In my song "96 Cris" I say, "...My bills too low for me to fall off." Honestly, if I neve….