When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say….

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actua….

The whole basis of the music is that people have these emotional attachments to these songs - whether they love it or hate it. Being able to manipula….

Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of tho….

These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I have a moment ….

I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending..

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you..

Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not overlong. Clad….

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song..

These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs I bailed on could have been be….

My philosophy for producing a record is for everyone involved, including myself, to get out of the way of the song, and at the same time, listen to i….

I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write songs that touched people. The m….

The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are th….

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes..

Love is your song - you can sing it any time. It is like breathing. Nobody is going to take it away from you; nobody can take it away from you..

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I w….

When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs fo….

I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually….

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write..

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often..

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements..