In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my guitar. I had decided after ….

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself..

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like because I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I….

I think I'm a lot happier than people might think from listening to my songs..

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane….

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours..

Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right now all you have is time, but s….

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just ….

I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That ….

I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever ….

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish..

Unforgettable, that's what you are Unforgettable though near or far Like a song of love that clings to me How the thought of you does things to me….

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit..

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It keeps building and buildi….

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs ….

I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing ….

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me..

Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell].

If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's just yourself and songs tha….

When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following….

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes. ... The thing is….