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….

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as f….

My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.".

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who ….

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song..

The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowin….

Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they….

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have..

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I….

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness..

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy..

If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either o….

Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the same thing with m….