Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be c….

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer..

I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the….

I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played bl….

I can write a song and a thousand people could hear it and there will be countless different reasons why those people get something out of that song.….

Sometimes sentiments were better left in song..

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper.".

One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time tra….

I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinkin….

"I'll Still Destroy You" song is lovingly talking about how we change our states of mind, whether it's weed or wine or whatever. It's an ingredient i….

The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborat….

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for ….

I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often..

A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and the bitter side. And this was good for me, writing,….

There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter, if you are not singing grea….

The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two..

It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point where you're comfortable enough to….

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discothequ….

The song writing is different because with this stuff, I write it on my own and with Hot Water, we're more of a collective and I love both sides of t….

At the beginning of my career, I saw an opportunity to forge new ground and focus on songwriting. Not many people were doing that at the time. Pretty….

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs..