Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.
As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.
I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy
Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.
Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.
Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.
Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.
I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early.
