Pastoral Resources

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

We became the songs we wrote.

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.