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….

I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs.….

I think I've gotten a pretty fair shake in the music press over the years. The only think that kind of irks me is when people assume that I must be r….

Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like….

No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. Y….

A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting….

Making a record's a real fight for me. I'm constantly fighting with this thing inside of me that says I should be sitting in a room with Matthew Ship….

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start….

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech..

P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever t….

There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more i….

Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical..

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O..

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head….

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high..

We built a foundation called the 3HO Foundation: a Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization of people. The first song I sang was, "We are the people, the pe….

I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've….

The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular cal….

I hope to bring people to God with my songs..

I Repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my Music, and more importantly, my Life has not provoked ….