My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.
Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.
Fame is a bee. It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.
Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.
I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.
