In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes….

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees..

You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try t….

It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home..

There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has….

Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in….

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combi….

Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it burns not with your song..

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp a….

Sing songs that none have sung.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there..

I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that are just so catchy they end up being in yo….

We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental ….

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars..

I give myself time with a guitar and PA to let my subconscious do its thing. This happens repeatedly over a period of time, and slowly, a set of song….

I am made of earth, and my song made of words..

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song ….

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time..

What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high,….

I'm listening to so much. I looooove Alicia Keys' song, "Unthinkable." I'm blasting that all over the place, but I'm also listening to Sade, and I al….

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can..