Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

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

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

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.