Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, ‘Fire and Rain’ speaks to them in that way.
I’m very unstable; there’s no stability in a musician’s life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don’t know where your money’s coming from.
I’m trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
What I’ve always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.
Being on a boat that’s moving through the water, it’s so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what’s important and what’s not.
I am myself for a living. I don’t animate a character.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don’t see the music world as a competitive sport.
Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
If you feel like singing along, don’t.
It’s probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it’s a failure.
Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I’ll be there, ’cause you’ve got a friend.
Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart.
In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that – like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn’t be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that – what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.
I’m always making music. I’m constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.
I’m grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.
It’s the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.
I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without – I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.