The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reaso….

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense ….

I love writing songs..

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!.

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

But it was an ending..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, beca….

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doin….

(before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet) I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up this song, but I was watching the….

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs..

Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free..

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my….

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all..

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a re….

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's wh….

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or p….

My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pain….

There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but….

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another..

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you co….