I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. It resonates in your body in a way that feels extraordinary.
'Haywire' is full of different kinds of love songs. It's definitely country and a little something for everybody. I feel like the subject matter goes a little deeper about love and relationships.
I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.
They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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.
