While 'Rap Trax!' recorded, Neel found some scrap paper and we started writing our first lyrics. Bandying about subject matter and title, we got stuck on the idea of 'cool', so my first rap song became 'Pretty Cool'. It was a symbol of our confidence...
No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They f...
I feel like I've been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I've kept pretty stable. That's because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it's only a song. It works for me, and I don't want to change it. I ...
I want to write a song about one man's level of commitment called, "I'd walk to the edge of the world, just to dump your body.
She's grateful for what she was born with. She should be. It's an awesome face, a perfect face, an ethereal face. The kind people write songs and poems and suicide notes about. It's that exotic kind of beauty that men in romance novels obsess over, e...
I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on t...
Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.
Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.
My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.
The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
