You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me..

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years..

It is by doing anything that we become anyone.

Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered should….

Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place wh….

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places..

I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song make it sound like one. If it's a rock song….

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fi….

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it..

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack..

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves..

Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental t….

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs..

Every intentional act is a magical act..

Love comes from the strangest places..

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last….

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terri….

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a ….

There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting ….