Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and ….

Hell, Justin and I even talking about recording a blues song sometime..

You can cage the singer but not the song..

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me..

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their so….

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated..

If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even five, those are the ones yo….

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about..

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own..

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all..

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you..

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff..

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want….

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal….

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the la….

I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die ….

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sou….

I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwrit….

I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one….

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, fe….

It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your other record" and I ….