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"Songs are like my children, from the concept phase, to writing, to recording, then editing and all of the work that went into it and the millions of listens. Then you move away from it and you never see it again."
"I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I think that informs a lot of what I write about. It could be a story about a couple, or a song about the slow death of the family farm or a small town."
"I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money.""
"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
"When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head."
"A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception."
"The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence."
"I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow."
"[Adrienne Shelly] explain exactly what she was looking for. This was her movie [Waitress].She also wrote the songs that I sing in it. She wrote everything. She chose the colour of our outfits; she designed the set of the diner. She was very, very involved at every level."
"Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play."
"For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
"Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her."
"Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth."
"I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs."
"People love music, they love songs and they love movies. I just don't understand how, along the way, a musical become something that was less than both of those, instead of being something that is an incredible merge of two things that people love."
"There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable."
"Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing."
"One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
"Remember to let her into your heart."
"A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then-the glory-so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished."
