I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!
I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.
There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.
I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.
I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.
We've written something like 900 songs in all.
We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
We became the songs we wrote.
I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.