I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams' how it was a club re….

Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars..

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And ….

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedica….

I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But writing songs and mel….

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs..

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist..

You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try t….

I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic..

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album..

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine the….

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song..

We always feel there are 3 parts to the song. The most important part is the reason it should exist. Our process usually consists of me sitting at th….

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary..

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth..

Then with Lucy [Hale], her little thing that I kind of learned from her is her country music because she’s obsessed with country and at the beginning….

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play..

I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea o….

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple ….

The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There….

Not God with wine, nor death, nor hate for a cry, but God with a song.