I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow..

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulati….

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really….

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick ….

I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'.

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs..

There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired..

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel fa….

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments..

The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotion….

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you thi….

I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the year….

There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavi….

Every song is different..

I thought that the R&B / Hip-Hop world really hasn't been explored on film and there's some issues that we're going through right now. It's in a very….

You sing songs hundreds of times over and over, but certain ones just morph and naturally, as you age and get life experience, take on a different fo….

Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album ….

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore..

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a comple….

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental ….

I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always i….