songs Quotes

“In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.”

“Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.”

“I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.”

“People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.”

“I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.”

“I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.”

“My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.”

“Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.”

“They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.”

“I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.”