Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result….

But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love son….

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code..

In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the second, sometimes it's ….

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off..

I want to make great songs..

All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. ….

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that reall….

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them..

It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would have to go back in get a full orchestra re-orc….

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off t….

And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different peo….

Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see..

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote..

I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us..

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called….

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not..

I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "….

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs..

I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song..

-“Say no more,” Leif interrupted. “I understand. I will simply have to kill them all myself.” -"There he goes again. I’m telling you, Danny Elfman wo….