I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time. The times we live in today - I mean, the….

Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brai….

God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiv….

Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Re….

If I look back at the songs I was writing when I was effectively a child, there's a big contrast, so I've learnt a lot along the way. I think it's a ….

Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the so….

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back ….

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever..

The act of the being in the band has very little in common with writing songs. The songs come out of it, and the band is necessary for the songs to e….

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one..

I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra next to a song that has other ….

I feel like the inspiration is that I've managed to change my songwriting over the past couple of years and also production styles. I could get a sen….

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth….

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. T….

Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain way that no-one else can sing ….

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works..

I think a good song is a good song is a good song..

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush..

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it..

To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losi….

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries..