With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Len….

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs..

I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with m….

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands..

It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-i….

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here..

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me..

When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become ….

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever..

If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving d….

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs..

I wanted to make an album where every song is kind of interacting - where you can't tell what's the string arrangement and what's the song. I guess t….

Whenever I think I know something is a classic, or an amazing song, I realise it's still so subjective, because you and your friends could be talking….

I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a ….

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in th….

Like our title song “Clap”, I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people..

Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats. I was starting to learn th….

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song..

We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives..

LATE will always be the most important song to me. I used to struggle to perform it live without getting upset but have performed it a lot now, which….

I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there….