Getting a gay fan base is slow. I think if I were able to reach more gay people they would love it. I can't get the songs in their ears. I love my ga….

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their h….

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespe….

Like a wave on the ocean I will always come right back to you..

I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I….

You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some ar….

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete..

My favorite song depends on the day, what I’m going through, what I’m feeling..

Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so ench….

I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegia….

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies..

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger ….

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption..

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subt….

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it..

Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born..

It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admi….

There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that..

I mean that's something we're very conscious of when writing. Tempos are very important. Like "Oh we can't play the song too fast because people aren….

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned..

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing..