Songs Quotations | Page 7

When you can buy just the songs you like in a digital format, you don't have to buy the album.

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.

For me, these songs are not really political, but more a sign of the times, ... I see them as songs of hope, songs with strong messages, songs that take on a new relevance today.

For us, we let the circumstances dictate what will happen with us. We're more inclined to let whatever demand there is for something manifest itself before we push our own agenda on the world. We didn't come up with the idea of recording new songs. It was (Jake) who suggested it and we went along with it, so I guess it would depend on what kind of influence we got from outside whether we would actually go and do more songs or not.

My daughter Lourdes and I listen to Britney Spears songs together.

My easy prediction is that The Beatles will sell a lot of songs online, even though seemingly everybody who has access to them has their songs already.

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Music. I do songs that have appeared on the pop charts, but they're music for grownups.