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What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

I loved singing something like 'I've Got My Eye On You' when it's really about the FBI. It turns a love song into something else!

When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul. Every song was like a movie, a unique and very different vignette.

At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander' the musical. His idea was to start with a CD of what you call a song cycle, with a dozen high points of the projected show. It turned out very well, though we had to stop doing it when the TV show came along.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it's like spices or herbs. The main part of the song is the stock.

Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.

Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.

Good music is timeless, whether it's a country song, rock, or R&B.

Every song has a purpose, the song should either make us cry, or happy, or fall in love or make us dance.

I listen to my songs as if it's a song made by some other composer.

Music is so great that sometimes even if you don't understand the meaning of the song, you will be able to figure out if that song is emoting happiness or sadness or excitement.

Being a musician, I truly believe that a language change cannot be a barrier for a song to penetrate new territories.

Any song has to be catchy. People think class films are tough and mass films come easy. But that's not true.

Music is an emotion so you have to live with music all through your life to make one hit song.

The moment I read the lyrics, I question if I'll be able to play it before my mom and sister. I've often fought in situations where a song was likely to make women feel uncomfortable.

I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.

If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit.

The tune 'All My Friends,' we recorded because our friend who wrote the song, Scott Boyer, passed way, and Gregg Allman had passed and he had recorded the song on his first solo record.