Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would….

Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, d….

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I lea….

I saw a Velveeta commercial and it was playing, I think 'Burning Love.' He [Michael Jackson] had approved it - that's something we can't control. He ….

Growing up, road trips with Dad were something I hated. Sitting still for hours, singing that stupid song, "100 bottles of beer on the wall. 100 bott….

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun….

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after..

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forg….

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along..

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together..

The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs..

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a fallin….

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness..

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible..

People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a differe….

There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggl….

The attitude is in my personality. It's going to come out in the songs no matter what. If you're pushing the vocal constantly at 10, there's no room ….

I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60..

When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is th….

A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a me….