Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die.

The truth is that there is almost nothing as tiresome as unwanted love.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

We've had some great players at this club in my 20 years, but he's up with the best.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

Any act in the name of God returns 10 fold.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being.