There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit..

We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We al….

Here's a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry, be happy In every life we have some trouble But when you wo….

I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the op….

All things die not: while the soul lives, love lives: the song may be now gay, now plaintive, but it is deathless..

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view..

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you..

Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not….

Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings..

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do th….

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my son….

Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked..

Wonderful songwriting, beautiful production, and deeply rooted in what makes American Roots Music great: Deep Southern Pain. It's the hurt that bring….

When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you'….

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent..

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio..

There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. ….

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it….

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most..

I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seei….