Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries..

Too bad the freedom seemed like a prison. As his boots hit the mosaic floor at the bottom of the stairs, John Mellencamp's old-school, bic-lighter an….

I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interes….

I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Ca….

I'm changing my flow up so much on every song that you're not going to be able to compare me to nobody but me..

I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my for….

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled..

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing p….

I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and ….

One have our biggest challenges if making sure that we are staying true to the mission that we feel called to do, which is writing songs for the chur….

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult..

We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental ….

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you ….

Those situations were just taking over my entire life. It was fun to write in a way, because it helped me take a really bad situation and a really sa….

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language..

Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source for their so….

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timel….

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to….

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some….

Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has t….

There are definitely some songs you sing and you just know there's something about it - there's kind of a touch on it that's different. But there are….