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….

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..

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth..

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..

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..

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 ….

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..