Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the same thing with m….

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in..

There is a silver lining to every cloud and there's some awesome songs that have come from some really like bad experiences, but they're great experi….

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs..

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to….

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction..

I understand why some bands don't like test new songs, but for us it's been very helpful and it hasn't really backfired. I was nervous that our secon….

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their o….

I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that….

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within m….

The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why ….

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin..

I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then ….

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!.

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time..

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm ….

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that….

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs..

I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and follo….

I don't think a lot of the times Foxygen songs require much editing. Our band rarely records a song and go, "God that sucked. We shouldn't show that ….

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel co….