Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It’s never really been addressed, as I haven’t had the time to go out...

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

I don’t want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don’t like songs that feel like radio candy… I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry – they pull some...

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn’t enough time for something to develop musically.

You have broken my heart Like the little kid, I can’t stop crying hitting my feet to the ground and my hands to my head Like the flies Can’t get up from sticky ground I...

I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That’s kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I’m not about...

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I will not promote other people’s songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

I don’t hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

I don’t know why I write really depressing songs. I’m a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I’m about normal.

I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they’re not because I write in the first person.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I don’t know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl But I will always come for you…

I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I’m a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz – Glenn Fredly, Diah Lestari – so 80% jazz, 20% mixed with everything – disco, hip...

I started writing songs at 17.

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

There’s some songs you can cover, and I’ve covered and butchered a few, but you can’t do them all.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart