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It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.