Pastoral Resources

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.

Every battalion has its marching songs.

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

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.

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 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.

We became the songs we wrote.