To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again..

If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates..

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone….

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs..

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a….

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life..

Yoochun makes great songs..so I want to go fishing w/ him. That way I can be closer to him as well..

I think you just have to have some rapport with the song..

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a th….

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands..

I'd trusted my fan base, I'd trusted the my gut, and I'd trusted the music. ...the real experts are out there in front of you every night. They're th….

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable..

I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about ….

A bet is a bet and I always keep my word in the bet what I do..

My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet..

Power is intoxicating..

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed thi….

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe..

The more the change, the more it is the same thing..

I don't do live things..

We are so much more undiscovered than we are discovered..