Luckily, like for instance the song "Suicide Dream 1," I wrote it out of such an incredibly powerful state that the melody carries that affect. So wh….
If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they're much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they're about rel….
Hope changes everything, doesn't it?.
A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you..
Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song..
I have achieved an inner freedom..
Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when we cry. Now is the season, ….
When we play on big stages, we tend to beef off the dance side of things and keep up the tempo..
I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely..
When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'.
I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song..
And that's all right with me..
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country ac….
The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that ….
I don't want to try to recreate for no reason. Like, me in my bedroom, singing songs to a camera was a special thing that was at that time in my life….
When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now..
To search for the old is to understand the new..
I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen..
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope..
Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blu….
Without a song, each day would be a century..