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With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.

I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Every song is like a painting.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.