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I sing a bit and play guitar.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the songs. That's it. As a result, my guitar playing suffers pretty horribly.