Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours..

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?.

I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I was going through. I think that….

There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song..

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I di….

I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to l….

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorr….

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be fille….

I try to project not only a song but a personality..

I don't intentionally make deep movies..

The culture's changed massively. The kids are different, with the phones and stuff. Even if you like a song, you don't really know who the artists ar….

There's not ever much of anything going on in my head..

Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his ….

I learned to play guitar on my lying back while I was bed-ridden. I only thought to record the songs because sometimes I would I couldn't remember wh….

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio..

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity..

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help..

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself..

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else ha….

The profound nature of our existence is that we are able at any moment to connect to anyone, anywhere. History is there to remind us of how far weve ….

Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The en….