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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

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

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.

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.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

Music will save the world.

I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.