I'm not done writing songs about you yet..

Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross..

I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of that language came from doo-wop music. You kno….

I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones for getti….

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years..

What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you ….

Keep at something even when you don't feel inspired. Don't wait for inspiration! I write a lot of songs that are terrible, in the hopes that one song….

What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every sin….

I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music ….

A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your ….

[Adrienne Shelly] explain exactly what she was looking for. This was her movie [Waitress].She also wrote the songs that I sing in it. She wrote every….

Saying you're a pop group isn't saying very much. Personally, when I think of pop, I think of instant, accessible, catchy songs - I definitely identi….

Performing is really close to being in studio but performing takes over because being in the studio is two things; the first thing is that it is real….

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose..

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call c….

I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, ….

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special..

Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll put a few more pieces of produ….

The song is celebrating someone's life. When someone passes, you should focus on all the good that that person has done, and try not to really think ….

Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from t….

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back ….