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When I found 'New Chain' by Col3trane, honestly, I couldn't stop playing it. It's a good road trip song because the beat just drives on.

I'm not going to do a song just because it's with Drake.

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

I was very, very fortunate that 'Chico and the Man' was on TV, that helped me quite a bit. Of course, having the No. 1 Christmas song in the Spanish market, 'Feliz Navidad,' doesn't hurt either.

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

I had to yell at the top of my lungs for a recording with A.R. Rahman sir for a song from the film 'Mom.' Once when the studio door was left open, an engineer napping outside woke up in the biggest panic after hearing me scream. It was hilarious.

English is my first language. When I learn a song in a new language, I break down the sounds phonetically and write them down in a way that I understand. I try to utilise those around me, who speak the native language, to correct my pronunciation.

While it's great to have a live interaction with the audience, you only have one chance to nail each song.

A lot of times what happens is, the song that is the most special ends up being least heard. So, whenever I am asked my favourite song, I always try to think of the ones which are little lesser known.

YouTube is a platform where people can be extremely, and sometimes brutally honest about how they feel about a certain artist or song.

I think its really important, that you are the face of our song. Because if you look at it, independent space is all about shaping our brand, and the kind of song we do. So you do things that are different and unique, and something that will help you establishing that brand.

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

A song like 'Tears Dry on Their Own' is really sad, but it's hopeful, too - that was my theme song for the first boy who broke my heart.

I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.

I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.

I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.

The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.

Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one's X-rays.

Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair.

I kind of write in a very classic way. I sit in the piano, working on some catchy, cool melodies and coming up with song concepts for those melodies. I kind of write in a very traditional way '- how people have written since the early '40s.

Well after 'Fast Car' was so huge, everyone was asking me, 'What's the next song?' At the time I just had ideas I was working on, but it was very clear I needed to finish another song ASAP, and that's how 'Perfect Strangers' came about.