There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don’t even sing their own songs anymore. It’s like producers these days have ghost producers; ‘I don’t produce,...

It’s not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it’s about paying tribute to them.

The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

I don’t really write songs anymore.

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can’t keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

It’s always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It’s more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

I’m not interested in fad songs.

There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what...

Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you’re referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That’s what my next...

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I’m going through and whatever people are going through.

Victory’s contagious” -Lorde

Music gives strength to the soul.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time...

At one time musical theater, particularly in the ’40s and ’50s, was a big source of pop songs. That’s how musical theater started, really – it was just a way of linking several pop songs...

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, “when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair’s off to one side and I feel like I’ve...

I’m not going to be rockin’ n’ rollin’ when I’m 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you’re 50.

It’s great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they’re familiar with.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I’m not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

What I’m most pleased about is that there’s no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better – there’s a consistency.

Some songs are never just ordinary songs, they become the memories you collect in your life.

Like a comet pulled from orbit, As it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, Halfway through the wood. Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better? But because I...

A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

That’s where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn’t even...

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

So don’t fall in love, there’s just too much to lose; if you’re given the chance then I’m begging you choose to walk away, walk away, don’t let it get you. I can’t bear to...

The shadow of a character is defined by its maker…while a heroine is personified by its actions and relatability. So writers can create a world with a heroine that has impact and finish with everessence...

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody’s ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There’s only one of those.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

Are we just dreamingIn the city that never sleeps?Cause I can’t be seeingWhat my eyes tell me.

I’ve got a collection of songs that I’ve had, I keep adding to and they’re all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I’ve done that on a lot of my records...

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

Can’t fight the moment of truth in your lies.

I’ve written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

Para mentiras las de la realidadpromete todo pero nada te da,yo nunca de mentímás que por verte reir.Menos piadosas que las del corazónson las mentiras de la diosa razón,yo solo te conté media verdad al...

Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll...

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.