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 ….

I'm not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I'm very much of a populist on those terms, I believe that the….

Songs come when they wanna come and I'll work at it when I feel like working at it. There are some songwriters that write every day, and I'm definite….

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time..

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong..

As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was differen….

The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus..

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do i….

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in….

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla do….

..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while throu….

With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singin….

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?.

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem..

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up w….

“I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing” is a hard song to perform, I was worried that I was not going to reach that significant note that is at the end of the….

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs..

When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with….

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs..