When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
Behind every dancer there’s someone that broke her, a song that moved her, a moment that inspired her and a dance floor that healed her.
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song.
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.
'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more they started requesting it on the radio.
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.
