When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would si….

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song..

Doing something that you love regardless when it's a blockbuster movie or you're writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is ….

A gush of bird song, a patter of dew A cloud and a rainbow's warning; Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning!.

I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember ….

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked..

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were ….

I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His p….

Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and….

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs..

A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them..

I started off just trying to make a wish list for myself. I wanted to work with people I really admire myself. I wanted to work with other artists fr….

Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought an….

Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns ….

Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs them….

Either is both, and Both is neither..

There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed in my life - there was a lot going on,….

For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork.

It's great to represent things that are not represented..

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound..

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song..