Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.
Love is a song, written in your heart. The moon is a poem in a starry night.
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.
You can't help but have your children and your family be part of what you dream about when you dream up a song.
It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums.
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.
Nirvana is next level. The songs are really cool to connect with on a more mature level, and I don't think I really understood that when I was 15.
My biggest song in the world is 'Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You.' All over the world, it's number one on the whole planet.
I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.
Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.
The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
