Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, i….
Start off each day with a song..
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. A….
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs t….
I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are..
When I am onstage, singing all these songs... what's going through my mind is nothing. That's what's so amazing about meditation - achieving that sta….
I translated Beatles songs for my English class..
I used to wonder why Lucy liked those songs so much. You know what I mean? She sits in the dark and listens and cries. Music does that to her...I did….
Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I'd say, No, it….
I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced….
This song goes out to Robin Williams. It's called 'Last Hope'..
The Replacements definitely changed my life, I think they're just amazing. The thing that blew me away [a band like that] is that you'll get into a b….
There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings you new son….
We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and neve….
He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message….
Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song..
Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time..
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death.….
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves..
I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend….
I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song..