Love is your song - you can sing it any time. It is like breathing. Nobody is going to take it away from you; nobody can take it away from you..

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I w….

When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs fo….

What song is it you want to hear?.

It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as well. I'm funny about numbers. It's be….

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio..

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudibl….

I am one of the haunted..

I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually….

My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid..

Annette had kissed me. Who would’a thunk it?.

I just wanna do my music..

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it..

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write..

That's what's gonna make me come up with new stuff, if you get a good break or a good beat, you get a certain energy, and you wanna release that ener….

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often..

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements..

When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really har….

A song is communicating with people. Entertainment is a different area..

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Len….

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs..