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….

I rather like the idea of defying death..

I love Kelly Clarkson..

I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished..

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Compan….

Since my tour (in Japan) just finished, I started writing songs. I was inspired a lot while on the road and I have a lot to say and feel. I want to p….

I love. I have loved. I will love..

Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a s….

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song..

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was..

There is no one else - there's never been anyone else but you. You're it Maddie..

It's how you live that really counts.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense..

I think it's good to have a balance. Everything I write about, it's not something I necessarily might have went through, there's songs where I might ….

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to….

What are days for? Days are where we live..

Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk so….