"The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way."
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"I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in."
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"It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe."
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"I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on."
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"Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy."
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"Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words."
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"No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song."
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"When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn't always connect with them because all these people would constantly sing these party songs and I couldn't always relate to them. When I was younger it felt very alienating and I try my best to be the person that I would've needed, for other people."
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"I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place."
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"It's very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I'd ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I'd written so far away. To me, that's so surreal."
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"I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours."
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"Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write."
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"Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough."
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"Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable."
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"I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything."
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"The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on."
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"I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny songs, I'm just adding some music to my words. So it's limited and specific, but as a performer I find it pretty enjoyable."
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"There are very few songs about just liking someone as a friend."
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"I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal."
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"I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life."
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