I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time.
I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.
I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.
I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.
I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.
I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.
I've always tended to write songs prolifically.
I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.
I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.
My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
I'm always happy with a guitar in my hand.
I do write a lot of folky songs naturally.
Being at the show, watching people do what they do so well, hearing a full orchestra, and hearing beautiful music? There's nothing better.
Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.
When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.
Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.
I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
I've always played acoustically - it's how I learned. I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Dylan and what have you.
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.
That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music.
The storytelling in country music is so powerful.
