I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write co….

Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway..

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem..

I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment tha….

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look ….

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo..

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited..

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out..

There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes a-tappin..

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears..

I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the f….

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she….

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around..

In love there is no because..

We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hear….

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio..

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is..

Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are….

As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stin….

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny ….