The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagin….

[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, i….

I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius..

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere..

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale..

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun..

when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs….

Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a song of a human be….

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature..

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them..

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the pe….

I like songs that go to different places and then come back..

Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an issue with m….

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or c….

I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable t….

Like the Birth Of Venus, the song [Yello "oh, Yeah"] denotes the birth of the bro. The song just reminds me of bros looking out over lowered Ray-Bans….

Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stay….

Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the….

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help u….

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also ….

Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed. They can just say two words about something, it's like hearing the f….