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When I started music, I did not know my songs would become evergreen.

Started music Songs Evergreen
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I believe that my songs have to do with peace and happiness.

Believe Songs Peace Happiness
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
Amazing Best Crowd Feeling
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Any Bullets Compared Dungeons
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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Actually Attention Been Has-Been
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If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Came Go Good Knew
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Always Barrel Bottom Felt
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Always Man Objective Reach
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I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.

Appreciate Beatles Could Devotion
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I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

Also Always Could Good
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Folk Folk Music Heard Horse
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

About Career Doing Going
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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

About Anything Felt Kind
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You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Able Audience Doing Feel
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I made my first complete song when I was 9.
Complete First Made Song
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I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

Always Free Free Time Gotta
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You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Always Become Better Performer
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Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

Affect Air Create More
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With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

Album Approach Best Better
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I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

Country Enjoy Fun Girl
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When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

About Best Came Eyes
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

About Came Career Down
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

Blues Country Kind Lyrical
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I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

Always Another Apologize Band
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'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

Country Diaries Dirt Excited
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I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Also Always Back Big
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Anything Burned Dancer Died
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Believe Better Even Explains
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

About Add Extra Friend
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Because Business Every Every Time
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

Born Burst Door Entertainer
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Came Coming Dad Died
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Found Impossible Me Really
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I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Age Even Got Guitar
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If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.

Anything Bunch Going Good
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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

About Certainly Does Everything
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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
Being Could Out Pretending
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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

Actually Almost Come May
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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Any Direct Me Mysterious
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

First album Need pen My memory
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Jah is my song and thats make me feel so strong

Jah Song Feel So strong
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I grew up in some suburb, I’d come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.

Grew up Some suburb Song
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I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs, Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things.

Teach My sighs Songs Tree
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If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.

Hearing My songs Human being Friend
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My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

Older sister Encouraged me Bought me First guitars
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Nothing World Art Songs
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I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

A singer Love songs Singing Rap music
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