Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, an...
I don’t think anybody’s ever written a song called, “There’s urine on the couch, and the remote control is in the shower.” I would write it myself, but I’ve never been very good at writing love ballads.
I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't ...
I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, an...
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine...
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affe...
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?
Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you
So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.
When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.
I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.
I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.
When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
