You don't really know a song until you play it live..

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced..

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something..

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve..

You gonna hear a lot of loving songs in there, you gonna hear betrayal songs, you gonna hear action that takes place on some of the records ... But i….

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I….

I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album ….

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all..

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march..

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all ….

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs..

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer..

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder….

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is….

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will pro….

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May..

I'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, 'Fly, Eagles Fly.'.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I….

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror….

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry..

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time..