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I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.