Pastoral Resources

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.