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.
Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
...I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.
