I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it part of my life. I usually can't wri….

It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home..

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violen….

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in betwe….

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Afric….

I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their lyric….

I remember going into a raggedy studio, still with my work uniform on. At the time, I was driving money trucks for Wells Fargo, so I had my gun and h….

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... ..

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away..

I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular….

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant..

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song….

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song..

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones..

There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced m….

It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men..

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone….

I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it..

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way..

I wrote many songs about UFOs..

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. S….