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- A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
- If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
- I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what…
- I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you…
- I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look…
- I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or…
- I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the…
- I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that…
- I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think…
- Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can…
- The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in…
- The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these…
- When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular…
- Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to…
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