Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

That's the problem with a lot of things these days. Everything is too full now; we are spoon-fed everything. All songs are about one thing and one thing specifically, there is no shading, no nuance, no mystery. Perhaps this is why music is not a place where people put their dreams at the moment; dreams suffocate in these airless environs.

The chilling precision that these old-timers used in coming up with their songs was no small thing.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.

Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.