I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.
I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.
Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.
My favourite songs from literally all my favourite albums are usually always track 10. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Illuminati? Time will tell.
My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.
One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.
Love makes me naked; Propinquity's a harsh master; O the songs we hide singing to ourselves!
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
