My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel co….

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies..

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage..

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight..

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, ….

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel. It just took me a really long time to get to a ….

Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the….

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Water….

We do have to learn poetry at school. Poetry is interesting to me, particularly Chinese poetry. It's like an ancient form of song. There's five sente….

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could..

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the f….

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night..

It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so low. People don't know wha….

I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a lot of bullshit in t….

I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, I still do, because it's my thin skin that a….

The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song..

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music..

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Villa….

There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies. And mythical….

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest..

That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project..