Music Quotes

I play my enemies like a game of chess.

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.

Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

Especially when you've got your own mail route, day after day, it was an easy place to write. It was like going to a library with no books. You're afforded to just go do your job, and you don't really even have to think about it. You know you're on the right street and you're at the right house, and you're putting the mail in the right box. That's where I wrote a lot of the early songs, walking on the mail route.

All the girls over there in Ireland are well versed in American country music. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline are like king and queen over there.

The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and all that. That would be something, to get your name in there.