Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.
My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.
I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.
The last thing we would want is for our fans to feel that we're trying to find the 17th opportunity to sell them the same song.
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.
I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.
We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.
The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.
The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.
I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song.
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.
