Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.
There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas.
True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.
The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.
There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud.
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.
I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.
When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life. ' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.
Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too critical about it. But I also feel like I wanted to say something a bit different from just being a musician and singing about yourself. Ultimately, that's not really interesting to me. Even when I was a kid, I was interested in observing people and maybe making my own stories. That kind of reflects in my music.
Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.