In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.