“Writing songs is almost like therapy; you can go in kind of angry or sad, and it makes the song better because it’s real...”

“A good song is a good song. You can jazz it up with whatever rhythm you like, but if the song is there, it stands.”

“Without music life is a journey through a desert.”

“People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.”

“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.”

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

“I never felt we were big rivals; we were the Beatles, they were the Rolling Stones.”

“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”

“Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.”

“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”

“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”