Pastoral Resources

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

I'm about to sing the song for the future.