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..

Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the dilu….

I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my ho….

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to wr….

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record..

I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Wat….

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too..

'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it….

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing..

A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories ….

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really….