If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But tha….

I've never been one like, "Oh, these are my songs" - that was done out of necessity, because there was no one to help. I have 90 percent of it writte….

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying ….

I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was,….

Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters ….

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song..

Straight ahead you can't go very far..

Oh - once in your life you find someone Who will turn your world around Bring you up when you're feelin' down Ya - nothin' could change what you m….

I think that people want to go to the movies and watch shows on TV or in theaters that make them feel good and music really does that. Not only can y….

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming..

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied..

I'm all about the crockpot..

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy..

The biggest lesson is that you write the best songs when you're being real, an honest and you mean what you're saying, not trying to be something you….

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra.

I'm Angie to everybody, you've got to learn..

The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed t….

When you have to jump, you jump..

The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature..

No one is ever going to be as good as I was.

What we see is not always what exists..