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 ….

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in….

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to mu….

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photograph….

I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have t….

Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the peopl….

You've got to really know your song, inside and out..

Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of ….

You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best..

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self..

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time..

I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling..

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee..

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs..

The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothin….

I don't get mad with people, like, 'Oh, but that's not what the song was about...' It's also nice to know that people are mindlessly dancing to a son….

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing..

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them..

When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a ….

I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past whe….