I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.
I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice, but it's something that grabs you, and the songs are so good.
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'
