I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs..

I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in ….

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record..

I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When y….

When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to pla….

When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my managemen….

I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock son….

Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favorite song th….

There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a ….

Some days I'll be like, "You know what? Why don't I go to my daughter's studio and make a song?!" And then I don't! I don't know if I would have all ….

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there..

A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or ….

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitat….

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peac….

Im not the type of artist thats like, Lets go out and party and dance your life away! I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my s….

I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I ….

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage..

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books….

This song of mine Is a song of the vine To be sung by the glowing embers Of wayside inns, When the rain begins To darken the drear Novembers. an….

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition an….

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing..