"Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you."
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"At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand."
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"The first two songs that I wrote, produced and demoed with my voice on it was that song and then Akon's "Sorry, Blame It On Me." The first two demos I ever wrote and demoed, the two biggest artists at the time took them."
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"I'm always constantly doing stuff with Beyonce in mind. Anytime I hear a beat I think she'll love, I'll put something to it and go from there and hopefully it's something that she's in the mood for doing.What exactly were you trying to accomplish with this song?"
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"When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs."
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"As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career."
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"It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or whatnot, and jumping up and down on a pogo stick while playing a fancy lead guitar. And they get mad when I sing a heartfelt emotional song and if there's an album full of them."
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"When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it. There's things that are very broad and universal topics. Those are the songs that might work for others."
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"I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form."
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"I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?"
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"One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record."
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"Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign."
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"Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and fans ... an incredible solo performer ... the creator of our favorite songs."
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"Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind."
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"I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is."
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"I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not."
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"I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters."
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"The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story."
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"To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it."
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"I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!"
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