I only want to sing things that I can feel and if I don't have a feeling for a song ... then I'll pass it over,

It's not my song any more. It's very much the audience's song, so if I'm feeling generous I'll wheel it out one night.

Sing a Song before you can Sing some Song ~

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communicate, but now I found that singing was both a physical and emotional joy. It was sensuous, a pure pleasure, which didn't take away from the emotions being expressed—even if they were melancholic. Music can do that; you can enjoy singing about something sad.

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.