Our music is honest. We are who we are... messed up, dysfunctional sinners that have been loved in spite of our hate. We don't deny that we live in a….

The nice thing about doing a pop opera is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there ….

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from begin….

I was 5 when I won my first song and dance competition, and my parents asked me if that is what I wanted to do, and I said, "Yeah." At 5, how can you….

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family..

When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing ne….

Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song..

I don't really have a favorite song. Music is such a big part of who I am, and speaks to so many different emotions inside me, that I don't have an a….

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song..

I have loved music so much from when I was little and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea, I don't know….

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out o….

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling.".

Often people will ask me why a song was chosen and I don't always have a good answer for it. You try ideas and something works or sounds really cool.….

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... ….

In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs..

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday….

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on son….

Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious t….

Soup is the song of the hearth... and the home..

I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are t….

Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and so I wrote the song and mailed the….