Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday.

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love.

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I'm a big fan of Lady Gaga.

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song 'Yesterday.' Listen to the lyrics.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

I have never been one for musicians. I know girls are supposed to go crazy for frontmen who close their eyes when they sing and nod their heads when the drums kick in, but I'm like Shania Twain with that stuff: That don't impress me much. I'll take wit and brains over the ability to carry a tune any day.

I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

If you're thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you're thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it.

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

I know all the words to 'I'm on a Boat.'

There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.

If you think about it, for almost any moment, any mood that you might be in, there's probably a Beatles song that will address that mood, that feeling, that set of emotions. I don't know that that can be said about very many groups, if any.