Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.
I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.
I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.
So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.
My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.
