My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon..

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long..

It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know The Way." That's the first song we ….

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart..

I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eigh….

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs..

Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away with fame and fortune and all that.….

Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of m….

I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons..

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enem….

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs..

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ….

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em..

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what ….

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it. I studied diction, breathing control, phrasing, ….

A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I wan….

I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounce….

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, sin….

'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one..

I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to the first woman I saw in the room and….

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs..