I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.
There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.
We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.
Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.
It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
I'm not tired of who I am. That would be sad!
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
The sadness will last forever.
Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, 'Bette Davis Eyes'. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But the fact of the song was the proof of an acknowledgement that in the twentieth century we lived through an age of im...
Music has the power to stop time. When I listen to songs, I'm transported back to the moment of their birth, which is sometimes even before the moment of my birth. Old songs, rock or soul or blues, still connect with me because the human emotions in ...
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
He who starts singing too high will never finish the song.
Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions.
