On Heartbreaker, I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those so….

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for someb….

There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting ….

The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all songwriters was to match his body of….

The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kid….

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves..

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs..

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness..

I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would barter all else there is of ….

Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All ….

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus..

Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing..

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me..

I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work. I started talking to Noah - Panda Bear - about ….

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these th….

I wanna be the smile you put on your face. I wanna be your hands when you say your grace. I wanna be whatever is your favorite place, oh I just wa….

I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I'd cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That's how I go….

If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would b….

Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird tha….

Mine would be Your Song, which is just one of his ones that I... I was actually glad the whole song wasn't played in this film and it's just a few ba….

Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio….