I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp a….

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working..

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs,….

Come a little closer, love the way you look tonight My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she….

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs..

A song can take you to a special time in your life..

I can't write songs unless I am in love..

Say an A&R person wants me to do this type of song because they feel it is going to work on the radio, I guarantee you that unless the song is real, ….

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are har….

How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?.

The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to unders….

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from th….

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it wa….

Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and we may not speak the same language, but t….

I think that lyrically, 'Safe' is a very positive song: it's very strong; it's about keeping somebody safe and protecting people. I think everybody a….

My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite..

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….