Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
The people in my songs are all me.
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.
I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
I don't know if my songs fit in films.
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.
When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.
I sing the songs that people need to hear.
I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.
I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.
You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.
