My dad one time told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to ….

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates..

Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men..

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing..

To lead is neither to push or pull..

I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet..

Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in….

The more music you love, the happier you will be..

When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the beginning of our career and ….

There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the ….

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs..

I never have anything to talk about..

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own..

It is not enough to have a song on your lips. You must also have a song in your heart..

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood….

I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the ser….

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing..

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the e….

I established my bank in 1988..

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole..

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything..