Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or ….

Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the same questions and fears and unhappine….

When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with words, rationalization….

What's great about going on tour is that it immediately unburdens me of those self-centered misconceptions. Because suddenly, with these songs you've….

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed..

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it..

I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer - so it always becomes a different….

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own..

I was writing with different people in Nashville - whoever I could. Eddie Hinton came on the scene about 1963, and about four years later we wrote a ….

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent D….

There are a lot of producers and people in the music industry who take credit for the work of others when it's not actually their work. Especially bi….

I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy sp….

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the tru….

The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, ….

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it..

Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used - maybe a particular type ….

The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, 'Look, I miss you darlin….

My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all th….

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron..

The song "My Way" is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the….

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum..