I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh..

I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit you could pick and choose how you w….

I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I w….

And I know, There is nothing that I would not do for you, Forever be true, And I know, Although times can be hard We will see it through, I'm ….

I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that I would just kind of le….

I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort o….

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess….

It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juv….

If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on ….

Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by Adele, Garth Brooks, ….

Hope, to me, is wishing for something good to be true. I believe it is inherent in all of mankind to hope, not because we need to escape where we are….

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to ma….

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird..

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing..

All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex..

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't..

I secretly hate worship music, as it's it weak and predictable, with lyrics designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator - not the greatest ar….

There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds chirping in the woods. The war seemed lik….

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere..

Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth..

Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy splendid banner emblazoned b….