I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.
it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.
I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law.
I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.
I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'
To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.
Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!
When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.
Hearts can never beat together, They always beat in harmony and singing the song called "Love
You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.
I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.
Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.
There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.
I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.
People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.
I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
