Pastoral Resources

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

I learn my songs by ear.

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.