Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without….

My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be….

I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out w….

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world..

They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor key….

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the….

Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen..

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched..

There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad ….

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape..

Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants or to make songs talk to wh….

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words..

I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy. So in some wa….

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that..

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live..

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to ear….

I really got into psych because everything has a really good groove to it and it's nicely spaced out, but ultimately they are just cool pop songs wit….

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. ….

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song..

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something w….

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs..