I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don….

I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of thin….

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had….

I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you re….

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song. Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of ….

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It'….

I'm a songwriter. So I'm OK. But when I wrote "Stand By Me" as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of yea….

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel ….

When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit.

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song..

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach..

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high..

I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, y….

Nothing in life is promised except death..

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes an….

I would say it's always been in me to want to have victorious songs. I sort of want my songs to have a feeling of victory, but through a lot of pain.….

I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to ….

For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melo….

You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on..

I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done..

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.