A song is like a dream, and you have to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter. You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback -- it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

My rights, my wrongs, I write 'til I'm right with God.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.