We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the ….

I can write songs without a guitar..

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place..

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music..

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free..

I like things that are contradictory or seem one way but are another way. I think it's more genuine. It's the way I am. I am very positive in certain….

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be ….

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy..

The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and und….

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love..

Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny and cloudless day. T….

I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines, so instead of getting obsesse….

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I sai….

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place..

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute song….

I deal with everything in my life in music - everything that ever happens to me just finds its way into a song or onto a record. I need it. It's like….

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he we….

I think it's silly when people try compartmentalize musical genres. That was always my problem with the chillwave thing - people were trying to make ….

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so i….

There's no love in my songs. There's just a lot of resentment. Just bad attitude. But that's intentional, that's what I like. I love the whole idea o….