I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song..

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement..

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like ….

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer..

I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna be a love song, but there's….

There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass….

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like th….

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did tha….

Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive an….

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs..

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark i….

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song..

I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensi….

Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or….

Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of ….

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her..

She don't know how much I need her She don't know I'd fall apart Without her kiss without her touch Without her faithful lovin' arms.

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself..

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel ….

I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don….

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know..