I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and….

Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, ….

I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as ea….

I can’t tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girl… And this boy can think of nothing but holding that girl’s….

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through….

I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little too big... the issues seemed too large….

It was always summer and the future called We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all And there was so much left to dream And so much time….

I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It am….

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told..

Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the s….

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself..

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to s….

I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the….

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing charac….

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous..

I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album ….

Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The ex….

I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually my lyrics are the last thing to go ont….

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs..

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. Th….

That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you do….