When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does….

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically..

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote..

Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the more….

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I ke….

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it..

I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which so….

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds..

I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on e….

When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, i….

At the end of the tour last year, I was completely fried. I felt my soul was begging me to give it a release. Two long trips to Costa Rica and to Ice….

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that w….

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened….

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done th….

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails..

There's so many songs about heartbreak that exist this in the world, because music is somehow the perfect medium to express something like this..

And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollarSpend it fast as I can for a wailin' song and a good guitarThe only things that I understand, oh yeah..

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy..

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling..

I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not….

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs..