Pastoral Resources

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.