Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song..

My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in record/album form for years to come, but now records aren't what they ….

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable har….

By the time I was six or seven-years-old, I had learned several techniques of how to use my voice and was able to choose the sound I wanted to distin….

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song..

I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it..

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song..

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up..

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people..

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it..

He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.".

And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing the washing up or something, you know,….

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth ….

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal..

How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering t….

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh..

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke..

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs..

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . ..

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me..

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communi….