It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP t….

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what….

Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A moment’s pause to watch the glory of ….

The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin',"….

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space….

The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song, And all ….

My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or p….

We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear….

Well we never set out to write a concept album. I've always used song writing as a therapeutic release so in that process, I just do my best to be ho….

I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it`s like to be real and the social ills that we face, if you aren`t backing Berni….

"On Script" is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I'd just been jamming on it one day, and again I was struggling with lyrics. I'm still fig….

In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an audience would react to it. I realized a….

Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens and his eyes go bright….

I was okay with singing. I always sneak a song into everything I do. Dancing, a little awkward. Little embarrassed about that. I don't move well. But….

I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot..

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved complete….

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you ….

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guit….

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he….

[Jack Johnson] became a superstar and started his own record label, and then he made and produced my first record, he co-wrote the songs on there, an….

People need to be happy, and if a song makes them happy, that's cool..