I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's….

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work.".

I had a really bad blushing problem when I was younger. The first time I ever performed was in an English class. I had an essay that I was supposed t….

Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also han….

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people..

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop son….

The asp doth on his feeder feed..

By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your….

You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is..

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are..

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine..

A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of a Ramones song if their life dep….

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'….

I know a lot of people connect with my story. Every night that I do shows, I get emails and texts and tweets about how my life story has helped chang….

I just want to get the most money I can..

You got to go along to get along..

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have….

I would say my relationships have always affected my music. Each one. I wrote most of my great songs, that I'm still using today, in 2008 when I had ….

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy..

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear..

There were days on that show where I had to go in and record a song, then I had to rehearse the dance for that song, and then I had to go and shoot a….