He sure put things into words good..

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom..

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did..

I'm just content with myself, happy with myself..

God, harden me against myself!.

The music brings me confidence and freedom. It's also the thing that can make me feel the most vulnerable. Once I finish writing all the songs for an….

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong..

Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, join….

My dad one time told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to ….

Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men..

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing..

I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet..

Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in….

The more music you love, the happier you will be..

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs..

I never have anything to talk about..

It is not enough to have a song on your lips. You must also have a song in your heart..

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood….

I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the ser….

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing..

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the e….