I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again..

The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher t….

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that..

The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and mag….

I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he is trying to say a little more….

What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect ….

People will pay for great services. They said they wouldn't pay 99 cents for a song but they did. We've always believed that. When you go to work, yo….

I would like the ambition to go directly into songwriting; individual songs. I want to see what I can do to push myself sonically with songwriting. I….

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black s….

If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is..

I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job….

It's good to have some kind of California in there. It's almost always appropriate. It's appropriate on a sunny day or late at night. If you grew up ….

Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thou….

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I ….

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial….

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs..

I don't think in biology it's very controversial at all. Whether certain behavior is culture or is not culture is argued. I think virtually all biolo….

I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sen….