I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
There isn't music without rhythm; have a soul that won't leave your lips without a song.
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.
