If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time..

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way..

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a r….

Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and a lot of her songs - is it just takes i….

Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A. push shuffle and anything will come on..

You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the ….

There's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of characte….

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue..

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California..

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax.

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs..

I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing….

A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a ….

We were never meant to be baby, we just happened.

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop..

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, muc….

I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Lig….

Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether ….

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute..

The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always put down your ideas or whatever. You use your voice rec….

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and g….