Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
All of my songs are f–ing amazing.
Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.
A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.
I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there.
I think to me, all songs are stories.
A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.
My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.
My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.
Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.
With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U. K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.
I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, "Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song. "
I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.
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 have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the "Girlfriend in a Coma" is, like, really funny.
Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.
Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.
Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.
