My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.
Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil. ' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.
Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!
Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
I don't have many easy songs.
I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.
I believe you have to live the songs.
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them
Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!
Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.
I really do seek to create music that is timeless,. . . Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To Love" are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make. . . The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do. . . It is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.
An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.
I am white, male, Norwegian and fairly resourceful. I am indeed among the least suppressed people on earth. If anyone can sing songs without fear, it should be me.
There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.
