“When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.”

“I try to make the music give people a chance to become engrossed with what they hear enough to possibly experience things they've probably experienced on their own but don't normally let themselves...”

“A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.”

“My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?”

“If there is one sinor rather one wasteit is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.”

“I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.”

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws ...”

“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

“I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis th...”

“Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.”

“Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a separate crea...”

“Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.”

“I was a wedding singer as a teenager.”

“I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in.”