Quotes About Songs

I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.

Anyone of any age or background who loved pop music liked our songs.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.

I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time I get a new role, I will take a chunk of time to just sit and listen to a bunch of songs and select the ones that make sense in my mind for that character. I can't even explain how much it helps me.

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.

That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there.

You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.

For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.

In a band with humor, it's easy to be a caricature, especially when you've been around as long as we have. But we sing those songs as genuine as we can, always from the heart. When we do the fish sounds in 'Rock Lobster,' Cindy and I are pouring our hearts out.

I feel like the first album contained a lot of personal songs, like 'The Foundation' or 'Carry the Weight.'

I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.

I would always pick pop songs and would sing them even if they were not correct for the audition - which didn't always get me a lot of jobs, but sometimes they did.

I've always covered some Dylan songs. I do one or two. And I do them because they're great songs. You know some people cover songs they wish they could have written, not me. I like to cover songs I know I could not have ever written.

I have always wanted to do a Christmas album and covers.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

I'm not comfortable doing a covers album.

'Airlift' changed a lot of things for me. It is a difficult film to make hit songs. So when I was able to crack that, I felt nice.

I've had a bit of a crazy life. So writing lyrics in songs is easy for me.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

My love of Seagal is ridiculous. Like, I love this man. I love how ridiculous he is. I mean, he made an album called 'Songs From The Crystal Cave.'

I love singing our Christmas songs every chance we get. It's really cute.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.