I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.
Some people take pictures; I write songs.
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.
Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.
One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.
I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.
Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
