Pastoral Resources

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.