It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.
Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.
Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.
I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that.
I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.
I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.
I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.
I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.
I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's not paycheck at the end; it's more of a "whatever is left over" kind of situation. Also, it keeps me from thinking about my creativity as a business, which it is not. It should remain pure; that's one of the reasons I made music in the first place.
I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
It doesn't mean that I'm overly enthusiastic about much music. Except the people that really touch me. It has to touch me, it has to grab a hold of me, I'm not looking for anything in particular.
I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.
I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.
I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.
Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.
