Great songs don’t grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into...

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced...

A good song should life your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

It’s true—there are only, like, two songs about rainbows, including that one. He should be asking why there are so few songs about rainbows.

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

It’s during a storm that the best songs get written.

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

By the end of it, you never know how it’s going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it’s...

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they’re screaming and yelling too much. It’s more singing than screaming.

I love writing songs.

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness...

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn’t have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

I wrote a song called “Stinky Sodomite.” It isn’t a pop song, a historical song, or a song condemning homosexuality. Rather, it is a children’s song that teaches them how to count. In fact, the...

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. ‘My Humps?’ C’mon!

He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.

Music is the emotions that words can not express.

It’s warts and all in my songs, and I think that’s why people can relate to them.

That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the skyAnd there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our griefand then one by...

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they’re entitled to that opinion but I don’t really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I’m going to cut the...

The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.

The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I’m extremely happy.

I’d like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

A DJ can’t just play one song. It’s about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.

Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren’t built, the books that weren’t written, the songs that weren’t sung. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. Get out of your own way. Your dreams...

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody… I am old fashioned.

The songs of separation are the best,they have the best lyrics,the best feelings, the best emotions as they come out of a broken heart.

I don’t write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I’ve ever had has been about 50-50 songs I’ve written or co-written and other people’s songs.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that’s always thinking. A good...

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They’d yell out the names, and we just kept ’em.

I write love songs!

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children...

Panic bells, it’s red alertThere’s something hereFrom somewhere elseThe war machine springs to lifeOpens up one eager eyeFocusing it on the skyWhere 99 red balloons go by

At the end of the day, they’re happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you’ve got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the...

I don’t really like to explain my songs.

I like to look at the songs like they’re little movies.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren’t expecting it.

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don’t know what I’m sorry about.

It’s been the longest timeSince I’ve been in this place,Where I spend my whole dayHoping I’ll see your face.Then I script things to say,And maybe what you’d say back.You don’t know it yet,But, girl, it’s...

I can’t write songs unless I am in love.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

Songs can be like photos – they hold a memory, a moment, and thoughts that keep you warm inside.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I’ve been writing songs for other artists.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.