It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.
Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter...having lost the song, w...
They who want to sing will always find a song.
The bear knows seven songs and they are all about honey.
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you di...
Today's marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It's one thing to say, 'I forgive,' but most lack the enterprise to do the necessary work that follows. It was the day after that proved who had the wisdom of God and who didn'...
Marriage is nothing to underestimate. Success in marriage is about getting back up, again and again. Ultimately, the Shulamite had to write her own role in Solomon's drama. She made Solomon's problems her problems. For her, that was worth every bruis...
Certain songs are almost like folk songs, which I love. I love folk music, and if you listen to 'Live Bullet,' there's 'Jody Girl,' which is almost a folk song, and I've always loved folk music. Quiet music, I don't try to do that with - I try to set...
It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage a...
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 ...
