Pastoral Resources

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.