The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is diffic….

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them..

I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too muc….

To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great to be performing so close to ….

Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to ….

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs..

When you direct the dialogue you can be precise, but with a song as a director you're more like a football coach. You can say one, two things in the ….

I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do. And then I think a lot of it….

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen..

I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only Y….

You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a starting point. You've got to keep….

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand….

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me..

I think when you're in the early stages of writing a song, it's important to shut off the part of your brain that tries to edit or criticize. That fu….

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs..

People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song..

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them ….

When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Goo….

You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on you….

Even in the sad songs, I want people to know that it won't always be like that..

Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, "I'm New Here," doesn't mince word….