Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar..

I'd rather be really good at something or not do it at all..

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times..

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole….

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention..

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other ….

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells m….

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics….

... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs..

See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I….

Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its i….

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost ….

Love finds us where we are, not where we were..

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, ….

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous l….

We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to ….

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feel….

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to he….

The gods have their own rules..

We don't really make friends, they make us..

Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God..