When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more..

I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassette….

Anyone that can pull you down is already below you!.

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along….

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules..

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song..

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung in….

There are moments on songs like "Violet" where it's still shrouded in metaphor, but it's quite, I don't know, explicit. And then there are songs like….

I write my lyrics the day I sing the song, so even when I have the basic things, I'm thinking what can I change, what can I add, how many harmonies c….

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago..

The best religion is the most tolerant..

Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I….

I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in c….

I really didn't think about song writing..

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like ….

You know, I've always wrote my best stuff when it takes me hardly any time at all. Actually I wrote.....this is actually a really funny story...'Ghos….

Don't just count your days, make your days count..

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie..

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun..

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved..

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories..