One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.
Life is like a song; there's a chorus you always come back to with a thrilling solo somewhere in the middle.
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
Yet the only girl who'd love him is his mother...' - A Girl Worth Fighting For (song)
Songs can be like photos - they hold a memory, a moment, and thoughts that keep you warm inside.
Sad songs screw us up. They tell us how to feel, they make it seem so real.
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.
I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
Friendship is like a song, some may be a hit and last forever and some maybe be a waste of time and never to be heard of again
I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
But isn't that what love is, Clarissa? Ownership? 'I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine,' as the Song of Songs goes." "No. And don't quote the Bible at me. I don't think you get it...It's not just that someone belongs to you, it's that you give y...
Love is fragile at best and often a burden or something that blinds us. It's fodder for poets and song writers and they build it into something beyond human capacity. Falling in love means enrolling yourself in the school of disappointment. Being hum...
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in...
I let that swim around in my aching head for a few minutes - "the arsenal of megadeath...the arsenal of megadeath" - and then, for some reason I can't quite explain, I began to write. Using a borrowed pencil and a cupcake wrapper, I wrote the first l...
You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriag...
I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do n...
