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….

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..

The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you ….

Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but f….

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, ….

I love Miley Cyrus. "We Can't Stop" is my ringtone. It's, like, one of eight songs that I have on my phone. I listen to it on repeat. It helps you to….

I try not to listen to other music. I have to keep my mind open for what's coming in as a songwriter. If I go into the gas station and pay for gas, w….

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because th….

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is..

The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start a revolution, and drive histo….

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seei….