I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
I have a lot of unknown songs.
The songs become the show, which is how it should be.
'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
I made my first complete song when I was 9.
I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
The people in my songs are all me.
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.
I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
I can't write songs unless I am in love.
I don't know if my songs fit in films.
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.
