It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been ….

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and….

I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I do….

Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to ultimate free….

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So all I wanted to have was drums and another guitar ….

HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hear….

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-….

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower ….

Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those….

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile….

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it..

How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written..

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitima….

That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental de….

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like..

We travel just to travel..

I am not anti-English, and I never was..

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box..

Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth..

I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema..