The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs..

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all o….

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan..

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired..

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of ….

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines..

It takes a lot of good songs to write a great song!.

Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk ….

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another..

The only Train song I like is the one that I play in my act "Drops Of Jupiter". Sheryl Crow has three or four songs that I like; also Dave Matthews B….

The truth is, people go to shows because they want a show. They want showbiz. When people talk about a show they saw it's not because they heard a so….

I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people.

As long as you have those brilliant songs, it didn't matter how bad you played, or how bad he sang on 'em sometimes. It was one of those magical thin….

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song..

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'.

And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say,….

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people..

Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not ….

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever e….

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting ….

The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tem….