I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.
In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'
When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.
I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.
I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.
A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
Kids just want to have one song. They don't care about a body of work; they don't even care about a whole album - they just want whatever's hot right now. They download that song, and that's it.
I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song.
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
No one can sad listening to Frankie Valli.
In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad.
Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness
Love! In this world of sadness, you are my happiness.
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.
