Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I….

Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I wa….

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like..

As long as bands are still out there slaving away in the garage and putting out their own records and just pushing the envelope for how songs should ….

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs..

I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relate….

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes throug….

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people reall….

There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear….

That was an idea of the record company, and also that was my first album after MCA and we wanted to come back with a strong album that would be notic….

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere i….

For the first records I really never thought about anything other than the song itself. I thought that this was what the job of a songwriter was. I w….

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning..

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever..

My brother & I have always said that to write a song, it takes all the experiences of your life, plus the time it takes to write it! To be specific, ….

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known..

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it..

That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in t….

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are..

I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all ….