I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wro….

I'm listening to so much. I looooove Alicia Keys' song, "Unthinkable." I'm blasting that all over the place, but I'm also listening to Sade, and I al….

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can..

No one can be cured of being who they are..

I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say….

Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or singing all the time. It dri….

The great appear great to us..

To be without a dog is worse than being without a song..

Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic dis….

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident..

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That….

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something..

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, W….

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint..

I'm a huge fan of Jesus Culture. I absolutely love them. I listen to them a lot. My wife loves them as well. I'm unashamedly a Jesus Culture fan. I l….

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me..

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years..

It is by doing anything that we become anyone.

Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered should….

Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place wh….