When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.
It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don't write that way.
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.
It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.
I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.
Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
I remember watching films in my teenage years, and you'd be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, and then a song would come on. You'd love that song forever; it changed your life.
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.
When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.
I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.
