I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.
I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.
As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.
You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.
Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song
I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.
When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.
If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
