I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.