90 Quotes by Jonny Lang

Sometimes I’ll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I’ll write the whole song, and that’s really the only way it feels comfortable.

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder – I haven’t gone back in a really long time and really listened to them – my first guitar influences. It’s been awhile since I revisited that.

Apparently, there’s this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it’s not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I’ve done.

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I’m doing what I love.

I’ve been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I’ve been listening to a lot of.

I think I’m more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

It’s just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

I’m glad I didn’t know certain things earlier, because then it wouldn’t be any fun.

You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn’t really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.