A love song is just a caress set to music.
I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.
We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.
Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
When you write a song, a song has longevity.
We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.
I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.
I really didn't think about song writing.
If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.