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….

All of creation is a song of praise to God..

People can get too heavy and it's just about being heavy, which means there isn't a whole lot of art in that; it's more mechanical. Just always keep ….

Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to someth….

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me ….

I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a….

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it..

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't….

I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write ab….

Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is s….

Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio tricks...maybe - remember, wh….

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs..

What can you think when one review says "this album is brilliant, and all the songs flow into the utmost brilliant song 'The Upside-Down Cross'" then….

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song..

(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is..

It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the pe….

I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a profes….

Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's alr….

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 i….