Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all. Use this quote
Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. Use this quote
I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music. Use this quote
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. Use this quote
Well-written words are music. Use this quote
Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say. Use this quote
I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not. Use this quote
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium. Use this quote
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Use this quote
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. Use this quote
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? Use this quote
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Use this quote
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile. Use this quote
