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Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.

A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.