Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing..

I've spent a lot of my early twenties focusing on other people as opposed to myself. Being madly in love with people and putting them first and not n….

The only thing I think about is doing something where I'm the only person making all the decisions - I think that would be fun to do, just to get it ….

I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream suc….

My favorite song is Eminem's 'Rap God.' That joint is just incredible, It's six-and-a-half minutes of him just crushing the whole game. It's so diffe….

A lot of my albums that Ive done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. Its before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spont….

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know ….

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another..

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face….

I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to….

The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be..

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I jus….

The love of every single one of my lives..

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated..

ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears..

I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the ….

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all d….

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you giv….

Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes you laugh and feel light as a feather. ….

I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs..

I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what th….