I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too..

Every song that I play I wrote by myself..

Off with their heads!.

Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having the courage to say certain ….

If you're up on a stage, naked and solo and singing songs to people, there's not much place to hide, so you may as well confess what you want to conf….

I'm very underground..

I'm a lover of songs..

It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I….

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein..

Knowledge isn’t love.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future..

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything..

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I thi….

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it..

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him..

Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one..

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym..

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums..

I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a hat and do it. I would just you know. That's why I nev….