Pastoral Resources

I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.

Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons.

This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.