You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that so….

I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not puttin….

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus wit….

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity t….

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them..

What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing the songs. I just don't want to promo….

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until….

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more..

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song gro….

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song ….

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them..

I was really kind of miserable with myself personally and all of the things that you can be creatively, until someone said - and I don't know what ab….

Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in….

I create my own schedule, so you start out each day and you say, "Okay, from 10 to 11 I'm going to write," and on the dot at 10, I went downstairs, g….

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of wh….

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the sa….

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, a….

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent..

Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money….

I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I….

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency..