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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Jimmy Carl Black

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

Nuno Bettencourt

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.

Nuno Bettencourt

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

Nuno Bettencourt

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

Daisy Berkowitz

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

Daisy Berkowitz

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.