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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.