Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your ….

Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of salt air, i….

I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle o….

There's lots of sides. The CD doesn't really create a mood. It creates more of a journey. It starts out with a simple bluegrass tune, sort of melanch….

Sometimes to get in the "musical mood," I'll just turn on music really loud, or go drive around and listen to music, or learn a song that I really li….

It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I ….

Sometimes I even work out to 'Glee' songs to keep me going..

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world..

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the prelite….

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to h….

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words..

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions..

The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive. A lot of them ru….

Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love's sake - as m….

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek..

So many times nowadays it's about having two good songs on an album and a bunch of filler, and I wanted to make something that I felt every song on t….

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people..

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it..

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you..

At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears we….

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so..