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..
All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality..
When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice ….
I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in….
We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit ….
I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it..
Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!.
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs..
My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch ….
The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and so….
The main thing that I've learned, artistically, is that if I'm in pain and feeling the budding of anger - if I absolutely feel like I need to write a….
I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're alwa….
There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery..
It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right..