Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good.
If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.
If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.
If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.
The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.
I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.
I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.
Timbaland's so wishy-washy sometimes - he'll hate a song at first and then love it, and then maybe go back to not liking it as much as something else.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.
If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
