I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.