Charlie Daniels
Related KINA GRANNIS To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifyin... BARRY MANILOW ASTRO I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I do... DAN HILL JOHNNY CASH PETE TOWNSHEND But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do. CAROLINE CORR But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do. CAROLINE CORR I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own child... DANIEL PINKWATER I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the w... SHAHID KAPOOR NAIMA ADEDAPO If there is pain in my life or something that is wrong. I try to go to that place in me and write fr... JENEANE SESSUM STEVIE WONDER SANHITA BARUAH DRAKE BECKY G PAUL MCCARTNEY When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emot... VANCE JOY Rarely do I finish a song lyrically before I have a musical idea there, but then again, rarely ever ... HOZIER Sometimes, I feel able to write lines about my life and about how I do feel everyday in such a huge ... SARAH KEDDAR VIKRAM SETH I think people sometimes confuse 'catchy' with something that should automatically be a hit ... ADAM SCHLESINGER Personally, I wouldn't write a book about the Clinton White House, but it's not necessarily for any ... MIKE MCCURRY I would not want to write something about something I do not think about. GEEZER BUTLER OLLY MURS At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I re... MADISON MARLOW CHARLI XCX JHUMPA LAHIRI Sometimes I think we are scared of real country music but a message like what was in that song, that... LEE ANN WOMACK I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped... JOHN DARNIELLE I had an idea that it would just, I was going to do a four-record deal with Rounder. I was going to ... GEORGE THOROGOOD CRISS JAMI KELSEA BALLERINI When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should... DARIUS RUCKER Sometimes I have an idea and I'll kind of write the idea down and sort of tinker away at it until I ... ADAM CARROLL ALICE MUNRO CRAIG GROESCHEL What did that Walt Disney song say? Someday my prince will come? Well, mine came alright... and I do... D.H. STARR If you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an aco... MARK KNOPFLER I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &... FEFE DOBSON AVRIL LAVIGNE Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress... CURTIS MAYFIELD I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell... JACK HANDY CAMILA CABELLO If something happens in my life that I want to write something about, then I do. DANIELLE TREECE With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting some... AGNES OBEL Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pr... B.O.B The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship... BILLY RAY CYRUS There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song i... HOZIER With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'... P. J. HARVEY SAMMY CAHN I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr... LOUIS L'AMOUR I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtr... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I personally feel that I got elected to do a job. I am not one to succumb to political pressure or w... BILL YOUNG God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it... OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do! JOHN PETERS STURGILL SIMPSON BEN E. KING Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make ... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD HUGH LAURIE I only want to sing things that I can feel and if I don't have a feeling for a song ... then I'll pa... DAVID GRAY EMINEM I think it's a good idea, but I also think it's going to happen. I think we're headed right in that ... BRIAN COONEY You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that h... A.J. HAWK They know who I am, where I come from, what I'm about. I go out there and it is what it is. If I fee... TRACE ADKINS I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that. KARY MULLIS For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I ... MARC ALMOND DEYTH BANGER My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my lif... KATE VOEGELE YOUNG THUG I feel that we may have a huge misunderstanding. I certainly did not intend for it to be an ultimatu... BOB HOLTON I don't know what good it would do to talk to him (Markowski) about that, but if there's something h... CARLOS CASILLAS Well good, I think, maybe he’s thinking that he’s being a total tool and reassessing the whole i... SARAH ALDERSON JACK WHITE Some people have a specific plan when they start out. I like to put a piece of wood on the lathe and... BILL KEIM RUSSELL CROWE LUCINDA WILLIAMS I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... goi... MADELINE ZIMA ARUNDHATI ROY DELTA GOODREM PAUL MCCARTNEY I hope these songs impact people’s lives in the positive, make people think about love. If people ... KIRK WHALUM CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that... BARRY MANILOW LOU REED It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to ... AGNES OBEL Gosh, thats a hard one. I think I would take personal items, clothes and family photos, things that ... HAROLD BROOKS Sometimes all I have to comfort me is a song,
and sometimes a song is the only thing that will comfo... RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON I hope these songs impact peoples lives in the positive, make people think about love. If people c... KIRK WHALUM MOBY IDINA MENZEL How far it goes after that with congressional hearings or if there is indeed an indictment, a trial ... BILL GINSBURG JOHN MCENROE I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example... DANNY WALLACE I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. A... RANDY NEWMAN TAYLOR SWIFT I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'... HAROLD RAMIS I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a... ISAAC BROCK STEPHENIE MEYER
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We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a ... CHARLIE DANIELS The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we&... CHARLIE DANIELS When somebody like Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan would come to town, I would do a session. I did a few ... CHARLIE DANIELS I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky... CHARLIE DANIELS We never envisioned this much stuff. I'm overwhelmed by the support out there for the troops, ... on... CHARLIE DANIELS We played everything from "White Sports Coat" to Bill Haley and the Comets - whatever happened to be... CHARLIE DANIELS We can no more blame it on good Middle Eastern citizens than we can blame Hitler on people of German... CHARLIE DANIELS I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be i... CHARLIE DANIELS Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to... CHARLIE DANIELS I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend o... CHARLIE DANIELS I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music. CHARLIE DANIELS We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you pay for the lives you stole, CHARLIE DANIELS My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referr... CHARLIE DANIELS Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country... CHARLIE DANIELS The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've e... CHARLIE DANIELS A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know w... CHARLIE DANIELS We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chan... CHARLIE DANIELS Every award I've ever received has been very gratifying. The Living Legend Award was extremely grati... CHARLIE DANIELS I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly line. They're able ... CHARLIE DANIELS We can look forward to some real benefits CHARLIE DANIELS I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't ... CHARLIE DANIELS Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted s... CHARLIE DANIELS Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 yea... CHARLIE DANIELS If somebody says, "He sounds just like Michael Jackson," well there's already a Michael Jackson. You... CHARLIE DANIELS We can get rid of red tape. CHARLIE DANIELS I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I ca... CHARLIE DANIELS My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're re... CHARLIE DANIELS Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the busines... CHARLIE DANIELS A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't kn... CHARLIE DANIELS I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend o... CHARLIE DANIELS Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ... LEE DANIELS When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug. PHIL DANIELS I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world. LEE DANIELS I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. ... LEE DANIELS I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre... LEE DANIELS MITCH DANIELS JOSEPHUS DANIELS VICTOR DANIELS MITCH DANIELS MITCH DANIELS Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the... LEE DANIELS I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's alway... GREG DANIELS I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, ... LEE DANIELS MITCH DANIELS Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby. PHIL DANIELS The consequences that cause people to do their best every day occur every day. Delayed rewards are f... AUBREY DANIELS People complain their bosses never give them positive reinforcement, ... I say to them: 'If you thin... AUBREY DANIELS If you feel you aren't getting much recognition for your contribution, think of your boss, because y... AUBREY DANIELS The real problem with EOM is that one person's success creates another person's failure, and if the ... AUBREY DANIELS The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, ... but the only thing that makes what you do... AUBREY DANIELS You would look at the scoreboard, and they would score one, we would score one. AMY DANIELS Our leasing team works in conjunction with the property management team to find potential retail pro... AMY DANIELS We also like that it's the first Club Monaco in the Boston market, so it's not something that you'll... AMY DANIELS The central demographic is a forty-two year old woman with an average household income of about 90,0... AMY DANIELS Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right... ANTONIO DANIELS We talked about staying loose. We were missing 30 points and nearly six assists. That's a big part o... ANTONIO DANIELS Some nights it's scoring, some nights it's not. Some nights it's defending. If everybody falls in an... ANTONIO DANIELS You always pull for the underdog, and Billy works extremely hard. He comes in early and gets shots, ... ANTONIO DANIELS You have so many all-stars, great players, who don't wear suits. Are you going to tell them that the... ANTONIO DANIELS I'm not here to average 30 points a game, ... That's not who I am, that's not what I'm about. I was ... ANTONIO DANIELS It took me getting to San Antonio, where I played with Avery Johnson, Mario Elie, Steve Kerr, Sean E... ANTONIO DANIELS No way, no how. There is no one more deserving to make the All-Star team than Gilbert Arenas. ANTONIO DANIELS That's a big chunk of who we are and what we do, but everybody else filled in the gaps. It was almos... ANTONIO DANIELS It will be a real defensive challenge for us because they both have a lot of offensive weapons, guys... ANTONIO DANIELS When that (incident) happened, it fired us up. Coach challenged us to play harder and we stepped it ... ANTHONY DANIELS We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. ANTHONY DANIELS Listen to them, they're dying, R2. Curse my metal body. I wasn't fast enough. It's all my fault. My ... ANTHONY DANIELS We went up on rates, but as gas is increasing, I don't think it's doing any good, ... ... We can't s... ANTHONY DANIELS Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. ANTHONY DANIELS I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. JEFF DANIELS MITCH DANIELS I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one. ANTHONY DANIELS Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. LEE DANIELS In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are... PHIL DANIELS MITCH DANIELS I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if... LEE DANIELS I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea a... PHIL DANIELS MITCH DANIELS MITCH DANIELS I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like ... KEVIN DANIELS I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads t... BEN DANIELS We are very pleased to gain this opportunity to explore for oil and gas in Mozambique. Through our r... BOB DANIELS The town of Williamston is in a severe financial crisis bordering on collapse. In summary, if we do ... BOB DANIELS We are thrilled to add Blair to our program and he is a natural fit for us in 2006 as we were lookin... BOB DANIELS Five years ago, I wouldn't have had the courage to talk about my 'situation'. But thanks to ISFMWSLW... BOB DANIELS The Garrard Road house is the example that will be used to spread the idea statewide. BOB DANIELS Part of our problem was Northern; they played a dynamite game. But because of the sheer amount of ti... BOB DANIELS With a bounce here and there we could have gotten a tie or possibly a win. We obviously had our chan... BOB DANIELS Not only did he make big saves, He was really good about getting the puck to the corners. A lot of t... BOB DANIELS MITCH DANIELS JOSEPHUS DANIELS I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fir... JEFF DANIELS My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna ... PHIL DANIELS I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.' LEE DANIELS Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on... JEFF DANIELS I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good acto... JEFF DANIELS When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mande... PHIL DANIELS This is not a ghost building that no one wants. This is a prime piece of real estate. DARRELL DANIELS Since windows are most vulnerable to break and let wind and rain in the building, we also have windo... DANNY DANIELS MITCH DANIELS MITCH DANIELS As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV... LEE DANIELS Somebody will download an MP3 file, and we'll have this huge spike in (network usage) and everything... DANNY DANIELS Every two weeks, our music usage is doubling, ... At some point in time, this is going to present a ... DANNY DANIELS I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life grow... LEE DANIELS He knows me. I'm his teacher. I taught him everything he knows. PHILLIP DANIELS The student was actually walking away when he fired the shot. The witnesses felt he was scared as so... PETER DANIELS I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemp... PHIL DANIELS On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really. ANTHONY DANIELS I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not w... GREG DANIELS We can't be 100 percent sure, but it appears to be a very unique proposition. LISA DANIELS Otherwise, it's going to look like a new facility when you go in there this fall, TOM DANIELS I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclasti... LEE DANIELS JOSEPHUS DANIELS When you think about 'The Simpsons' or 'King of the Hill' or something like that, th... GREG DANIELS Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indi... JEFF DANIELS We go into Spring Training and the season with catching as one of our strengths. With Rod, Gerald [L... JON DANIELS I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years... LEE DANIELS I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch ... BEN DANIELS Before the building was repaired, we took additional precautions by bringing in an environmental rem... DANNY DANIELS We expect him to be a member of the club moving forward this season and next. JON DANIELS It has gone from utterly nothing to something we have written articles on and commercial producers a... RAY DANIELS at an extremely heightened level, every particular word used in the statement, including the tense o... GEORGE DANIELS It's almost like slowly but surely everything is becoming controlled. What's next? Do you have to we... ANTONIO DANIELS We anticipate a full recovery. JON DANIELS Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing. JEFF DANIELS Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful a... ANTHONY DANIELS You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by t... ANTHONY DANIELS Researching Magic Johnson, I realized I clearly haven't done enough with my life. KEVIN DANIELS That's the way I play, ... I like to push the ball and attack the rim and put as much pressure on th... ANTONIO DANIELS It's early, but I really like this team, ... What you see is a bunch of professionals going out ther... ANTONIO DANIELS As far as where I fit in the back court, that's not for me to answer. My play will have to decide th... ANTONIO DANIELS The biggest thing, number one, was the style of play, ANTONIO DANIELS It's been an exciting week in a lot of ways, but I haven't been getting much sleep, ... I'll do some... ANTONIO DANIELS This team is already a good basketball team. They don't have to adjust to me; I have to adjust to th... ANTONIO DANIELS MITCH DANIELS When you open a building, you incur all those budgetary concerns, and if we close the building, we d... JUDY DANIELS We tried to come into the second game more focused, and with more intensity. I told the girls we nee... JACK DANIELS I just don't know yet, ... I'll probably just flip a coin before I go to bed. ... They both had a gr... JACK DANIELS I think they need to look for alternative funds, ... It's up to the commission to decide how the mon... JACK DANIELS It was huge because we were just trying to kill some time off and maybe pin them back. With Palm Bea... JACK DANIELS It makes calling the plays pretty easy. JACK DANIELS Prom night is like the baby-making night of the year. CHRIS DANIELS Bob is one of the most astute businesspeople I know, RICK DANIELS He's a fiery competitor. He's not afraid. JON DANIELS She nodded her head approvingly, ... I was a little surprised. JON DANIELS I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I fo... BEN DANIELS My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging tha... LEE DANIELS Let me say here, with clarity and with purpose, I concede nothing to the Democratic Party. I will st... RANDY DANIELS If he is a subject of an investigation, that is a major problem for Republicans in New York, and he ... RANDY DANIELS I hope it's not true. Because I think he's a good man. RANDY DANIELS This is a guy who has never been hit. The rest of us knows what it's like. He's led a charmed life a... RANDY DANIELS I would bet the farm on it because I know what is happening on the ground. RANDY DANIELS We've certainly had enough innings where we've helped people out. So maybe it's about time we took a... RANDY DANIELS We do have a couple of World War II tanks and other vehicles we can trace to a war, but this will be... CHAD DANIELS We were in it all the way to the end. It just came down to some crucial plays at the end. It's been ... ANTONIO DANIELS I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience oth... BEN DANIELS My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a barten... LEE DANIELS JOSEPHUS DANIELS Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventin... PAUL DANIELS We've tended to be passive and reactive when it comes to recruiting companies. We've got to start be... RICK DANIELS Oakland has really improved itself, Seattle has improved itself and Anaheim has a ton of young playe... JON DANIELS I will never provide you hoes with entertainment, I'll just sit back and watch as you make a fool ou... RICHARD DANIELS His wife is just the sweetest person, just about the nicest person you every met, ... She has that s... MIKE DANIELS can still sit on a park bench in a playground all day. CHRIS DANIELS It's been a long day, CHRIS DANIELS Obviously, this is a tragedy, ... This is one of those things that snaps everybody back into focus a... CHRIS DANIELS If it was raining outside and I was wearing makeup and needed a touchup, I would never go into a men... CHRIS DANIELS It's awesome. It's neat to be able to see your community on such an icon of a game. CHRIS DANIELS I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that a... JEFF DANIELS JOSEPHUS DANIELS MITCH DANIELS The sense of urgency is always there. Whether we made 20 moves or one, Buck will have these guys pre... JON DANIELS He is the highlight of many late-afternoon casual conversations in the clubhouse. JON DANIELS When the bell rang the pupils lined up outside their classrooms. Dane left the line as the teacher w... EUGENE DANIELS ISPs are wise to improve spam filtering, and ensure that permission emails are not erroneously marke... DAVID DANIELS I think we have focused on the middle-class actor who has needed some relief and help to be able to ... WILLIAM DANIELS MITCH DANIELS If he just means for gays and lesbians to just be there and be quiet, that won't happen, RAY DANIELS MITCH DANIELS MITCH DANIELS MITCH DANIELS MITCH DANIELS You have to see a new world, before you can play in it!! THOMAS DANIELS You could hear the gusts coming before you felt them and the trees popping like a series of firecrac... DANNY DANIELS I like being up a little before everybody and lighting the campfire. And my husband cooks. CHRIS DANIELS I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust. LEE DANIELS Strange things happen in this game. There were a lot of things going on, and we let them hang around... MARQUIS DANIELS The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins. JONATHAN DANIELS Take bananas -- 25 percent of Chiquita bananas come through New Orleans, JONATHAN DANIELS Perhaps I was being picky, but I really didn’t think being able to spell orgasm without being spot... SUMMER DANIELS The Eaton injury changed the dynamics of what we were working with. JON DANIELS MITCH DANIELS The thing about Billy is that he knows what his role is and he doesn't try to do anything outside of... ANTONIO DANIELS It's impossible to know how many people we don't catch. The rule of thumb is that there isn't a rule... ROB DANIELS You get a specific group of people that are just looking to fix their homes. We usually get about tw... ROB DANIELS He wasn't the easiest to coach because he can get kind of grumpy if he makes a mistake, but he's a n... JACK DANIELS And there's always that unspoken CBS factor lurking in the air of the hotel suite. ROB DANIELS You grow up quick when you're a kid from Queens, riding the subway by yourself, ... You see things. ... JON DANIELS
If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my gui... 
If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm ... 
When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just lik... 
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I wr... 
I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing. 
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi... 
To write is to reveal oneself.
I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authen... 
I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go throu... 
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get i... 
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform... 
I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it... 
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it'... 
I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going ... 
If I knew what to do
The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... 
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about somet... 
A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I ... 
Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three C... 
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory ... 
Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write ou... 
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act... 
Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next t... 
Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the... 
If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap... 
I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But... 
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a ... 
There's this process that comes about in writing a song where you just stop and see where it can go.... 
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunatel... 
Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I&... 
I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would... 
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or... 
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood... 
A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Th... 
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a... 
I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have ... 
If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I op... 
Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of ... 
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make ... 
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. 
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our con... 
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won... 
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and ... 
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats 