Pastoral Resources

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.