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.

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

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….

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..

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….

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..

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories..

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine..

I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something t….

When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all comes f….

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of th….

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny..

Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to under….

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the so….