But I saw this video, not even the whole thing, and I just knew that it was going to be my favorite song for...for the rest of my life. And it still ….

I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. Wit….

My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. ….

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move..

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that..

I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man….

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't….

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them..

If you think of the way Howlin' Wolf made records, you get the feeling there wasn't a production manager onsite, or a publicist having his say on how….

I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort."Paranoid Android" was the saddest song I'd ever heard in my life, but it felt so good….

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me..

It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living,….

We don't think about how the songs are going to translate so much during the writing process. Once the song is recorded, and once we're mixing, that'….

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artis….

I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matchin….

Downloading songs is not good..

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public..

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother..

When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done..

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs..

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt….