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….

I like albums where all the songs are written in one go. If you're trying to create the number-one album with the best songs ever, I get why you'd wa….

There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great produ….

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life..

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from..

I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross).

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God..

I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyri….

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production..

What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to si….

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs..

I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity brough….

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon..

Love is a battlefield..

In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the ad….

My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that music is a lifelong ….

I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be….

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their lo….