Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I fo….

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony..

When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience. I really consider myself….

With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now..

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder..

I couldn't be happier..

Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but wh….

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice t….

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them..

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not..

Africa is on the rise..

I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulner….

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity..

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not tru….

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numb….

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one.".

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of w….

It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer tour], and I didn't wa….

We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to me because it's actually - we….

When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to sa….