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Songs are life in 80 words or less.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work.

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

All my songs are where I am.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.