Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future..

Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almos….

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs..

Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to be-though I'd never be a choreog….

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that ch….

It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the ….

Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're you….

It's nice if you're making a regular pop or rock album and you get ten little songs. But I really try to make the album with one big story instead of….

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not..

I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go through all the stuff and the initial reac….

We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same..

Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of opened up my horizons for what ….

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a lig….

You are either going forward or you are not..

There is time in life for everything..

The one who is happy, that's the one who is right..

I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up ….

A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache….

I grill, therefore I am..

Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to….

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the avera….