When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.
If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.
If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space.
I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.
When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.
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 was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
It'll be my luck that the worst candidate will pick up 'Fly Over States' as his election song. Then I'll be forever linked to that guy, whoever he is!
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.
We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
We often concentrate on the negative side of the humanity, but humanity is growing, maturing every day, and to sign the song of a better future.
Every flower can sing, every tree can understand, every leaf can hear the silent song of your heart.
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.
