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I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.