I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.
I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!
I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.
I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
Yes, I co-wrote a song on the album called "Good Friend To Me" with Annie Roboff and Bekka Bramlett.
Every nation, every human being that came across earth had a song and sang in some way to their God.
Somewhere we went wrong Our love is like a song But you won't sing along Have you forgotten About us
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.
It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa Where's my wallet But, hey this song is funky.
My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.
Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.
Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me
I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.
We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.