What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my son….

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts..

Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love..

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs..

It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes the sunshine out of their life, the joy out of their heart, the song out of their mou….

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far..

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates..

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs..

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check..

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?.

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song..

Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village..

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with somethin….

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically wh….

I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to col….

Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing..

You put a big bird in a small cage, it'll sing you a song.

A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts..

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long.

I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve so….

More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. Sometimes what….