She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away..

I was never a kid who dreamt of being a performer. I started singing the songs because nobody knew who I was or cared at all. If I wasn't going to si….

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and someh….

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and….

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it..

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs..

I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But Louis Armstrong was playing it and sin….

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me..

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as….

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare..

Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart..

I sometimes suffer from insomnia and one of the first times it ever happened I was like, "I don't know what to do with myself," so I started writing ….

8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect of things that was important….

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about peop….

We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that cha….

When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous ….

What! All this for a song?.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost it….

I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer..

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song..

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before ….