It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.
Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.
I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.
I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
It’s easy to sing the song, but to pray the lyrics from deep within… that’s worship!
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
