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..

I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs i….

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine..

I've always been a singer-songwriter - it started off with me and the guitar, just writing songs, they were very simple. When I got in the studio it ….

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like wh….

I think going away and disappearing for a couple of years - or a few years, or whatever - definitely changed the way I look at songwriting. It made m….

People feel that you'll never be able to recreate the birthplace of a song that has, at its core, the hardship of a people. Unless you underwent the ….

Anyone who says the Backstreet Boys can't sing is crazy. They're probably just reading some highbrow critic who hates anyone the general public embra….

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is wh….