When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings..

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense..

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up..

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness..

Stay small and control it yourself..

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound..

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing..

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you….

Every thing is changing every minute..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit i….

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things..

Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate musi….

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn..

After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one..

My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer br….

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch..

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become..

Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives..

If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction..

What we seek is what we are..