A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.
I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.
in came. . . a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.
Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.