It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

"Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.