I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple ….

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children.

We wanted to not necessarily tell the story of the video or the song, but create an ambience. And I think now, I think that's gone now. There's nothi….

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're go….

Success feeds confidence..

I wanted to make mini features. And there was a wonderful creative freedom; not necessarily copying the lyrics, but just trying to create emotion. Li….

Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of ….

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community..

Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God's peace, joy and love, but….

The only rule is there are no rules..

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or ….

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope t….

I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when he wrote his most fa….

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing..

We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about..

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would si….

I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my own songs. It took that moment of poin….

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that..

Excuse me while I kiss the sky..

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad..

I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've tou….