Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental t….

I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through..

I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of do….

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't..

I don't try to approach things any differently, songwriting-wise, regardless of what I'm doing. I try to write whatever the best thing is that I'm do….

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year..

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song..

A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people..

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs..

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot..

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that….

I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesti….

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The new ones are exciting because they're fre….

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad..

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed sing….

If I only had 24 hours to live, I'd most likely spend it letting people know I loved them, and trying to make things right with whoever things were w….

Do your best. And then let life do the rest..

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way,….

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years..

I had been DJing a dance night in Brooklyn and witnessed the response people had to "The Devil's Dancers" - Oppenheimer's one hit song. All these you….

I travel by myself a lot. Most of the time I'm by myself..