Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought.

To live is to be haunted..

I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was ra….

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people..

Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?.

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book..

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a….

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs….

With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in every heart that kn….

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs..

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my ….

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier..

There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be li….

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs..

From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. T….

How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her...sweetly..

I always listen to you. Except when I don't..

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way..

I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to….

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am..

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death..