I didn't really feel any pressure when I've made records, I haven't as yet anyway. I feel when I'm making a record that I'm so excited about making new songs that when I'm doing demos of new songs, as soon as I make one that's really different I get really excited about the record, I don't care about the last record anymore.
Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers.
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.
Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders, confounds, defies evil itself; it does so by making what has been unmade; it subverts the spirit of the age; it mends the heart by whispering mysteries the mind alone can’t fathom; it fulfills its highest calling when into all the clamor of Hell it tells the unbearable, beautiful, truth that Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. None of these songs and stories matter if the beauty they’re adding to isn’t the kind of beauty that redeems and reclaims.
Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.
If you don't like my songs, don't hear it. If you don't like my music videos, don't watch it. If you hate me, I don't care.
I love writing songs.
All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.
Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.
Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since. . . I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.
When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.
