I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.
I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.
If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
I cannot give up chasing after happiness simply because there might be pain down the road.
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only things that ever really kept my attention.
The problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the producer might say he's happy with my vocal take but I'll say, 'No, it can be better.' I'll do it again and again until I feel I've got the truth out of a song.
