There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 t….

You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them..

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in ….

Join with those who sing songs, tell stories, enjoy life ... because happiness is contagious. Join those who walk with their heads high even when the….

I don't really know how writing process happens, how these songs are arrived at. One of the things I like about the writing process is, I don't neces….

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It ….

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of c….

I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song..

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a so….

I think music should be free. I think all communication should be free. I think people should respect artists, and there should be a certain respect ….

In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to ….

It's pretty much the songs I write that dictate what vibe it should be and what singers it should be..

All songs have those X factors. I couldn't even explain or describe what will grab me about them but it's all music that I'm usually listening to. I'….

Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singe….

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show..

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Mon….

I didn't sit down and write a song like, "I want to write a song about this," but I just spent so much time living in this affectively charged space ….

Sometimes, I actually end up doing three or four different versions of one song, and sometimes, those versions can be done very differently. They can….

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love..

My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit i….

I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jeal….