We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs..

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because….

See the gift that change delivers..

I love new questions..

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs..

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded..

A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when ….

There's a vast ecosystem for music outside of Myspace and Facebook and you need to make sure that your music is in as many hands as possible. I wante….

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it..

"I'm Black". I think that's the best song I ever made in my whole life..

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy….

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They mus….

Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget..

I'd love to do a song with Tom Waits. Around when I was like 17 or 18, my buddy, D-Money, put me on the Tom Waits and I literally at that point got e….

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers..

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea..

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual ….

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music..

Hope is really a thought..

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for..

I really liked it best when I was a nobody..