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….

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions..

There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life..

On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not ….

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be..

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along..

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old..

The more things you own, the more they own you..

I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things..

In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production….

The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters..

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other..

James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Ga….

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did….

Don't be afraid to have nothing..

this is the upside of already being eternally damned.