I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set.
Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.
I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.
I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.