And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter..

I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like it. There's no noise on the comput….

We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with the stars and all that. So that's….

I started taking selfies since I was 4.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month..

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to m….

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see..

I've always been a businesswoman..

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about..

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski..

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent..

You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend.

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to b….

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so….

If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immedi….

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could..

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man..

The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a….

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place..