She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. O….

Let me be the only one to keep you from the cold Now the floor of hell is laid, the stars are bright as gold They light for you, they shine for you….

Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun, you will h….

I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person….

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to..

One of the coolest moments for me is still when Kenny G came back to a venue to find me and personally tell me that he loved my song "Void of a Legen….

I do try to pick music that is from different worlds and typically doesn't flow together. When you do that, you get songs with conflicting messages, ….

Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers..

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therei….

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody..

My songs are just little letters to me..

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero..

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing..

His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song..

As my life went on and I met Frank Sinatra and people like that, and I watched live performers on stage, I learned how to tell a story. Because if yo….

That story about the two women in my life is - a lot of people get upset, a lot of people question it. Steven Soderbergh said to me, "The story of yo….

I feel like tiny bird with a big song!.

If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know..

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words..

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when….

You're every love song ever written..