In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs ...
Whenever I hear somebody cover a song, I don't like to hear it stray too far from the original. I like to hear some of the new energy that a band will put into it, but you kind of want to hear some of the basic parts of the song. I mean, that's what ...
I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was ...
Girl: How come you don't play during daytime? I see you here everyday. Guy: During the daytime people would want to hear songs that they know, just songs that they recognize. I play these song at night or I wouldn't make any money. People wouldn't li...
Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit.
Wherever the hope of glory lives, hopelessness passes away.
I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!
With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.
There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.
Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.
When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.
