He studied her lips like they were a riddle he desperately needed to solve.
We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.
I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.
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.
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long
I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up.
In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.
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.
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.
To all those women -- strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
