No one can tell me that I’m doing wrong.
I’m glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.
My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.
I don’t think anyone really says anything new.
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
I don’t play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.
The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart.
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn’t there before.
All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one’s gonna bring me down.
I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter – well, you don’t do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there’s an element of alienation in your life.
Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They’re extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
I’ve written a number of songs over the years and it’s a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It’s sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.
The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.
To me, very much of what is artistic is people’s very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
I don’t get into heavy political numbers because I don’t find them lyrical.
I think there’s probably a God-shaped hole in everybody’s being. Even if God only exists in people’s minds, He’s still a force.