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For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.
But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.
Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with time!
Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand.
I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song.
Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.
If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it.
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.
Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.
I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.
When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.
I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!
Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.
I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.
I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Funny songs, that’s my ticket. I can’t remember when it started or why it started, it’s just something that I NEEDED.
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.
I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.
I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.
Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.
Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.
I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.
Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.
This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.
Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.
The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.
I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.
There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.