Pastoral Resources

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

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.

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

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.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

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.

If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.

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

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Every battalion has its marching songs.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

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.