Musician Quotes

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.
I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.
I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.
In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.
It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.
One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
People take songs so literally.
So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.
When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
All audiences should be slightly off balance.
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.
But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.
I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.
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