Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a s….

It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me, I don't worry about it, but I kno….

I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks..

If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo wher….

I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition..

I’d forgotten to keep blasting a song in my mind. I remedied my mistake, but the lyrics to “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” seemed too close to home a….

When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip th….

[Best original song nomination in 2016] should be Wiz Khalifa for "See You Again," but this is an amazing song and it's easily the biggest song out o….

People love music, they love songs and they love movies. I just don't understand how, along the way, a musical become something that was less than bo….

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get throu….

I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and c….

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urg….

I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to ha….

I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on….

I feel like I always had an ear. I have the ability and the gift to hear a song and really play it in a matter of five to 10 minutes and make my own ….

If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being offic….

When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole '60s thing, and that made me want to ma….

Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't reall….

The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certa….

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes..

As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll u….