I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.
The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain.
..it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.
The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.
People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.
Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
when whispered what an exquisite song, it makes- your name.
If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you
He studied her lips like they were a riddle he desperately needed to solve.
We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.
I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.
So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
