St. Lucia Quotes

'Underrated.' That is the word that best describes Prince, the Guitarist. Why? Because his phenomenal guitar-playing was just one arrow in a quiver full of remarkable talents.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

I'd never take any credit for David's music - that's all his.

I'd love to work with Prince. He's such an amazing musician.

I think I have the capability to make music different from what I have already released. There are ghazals and other songs that I can create. There is no stopping me though.

I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.

My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

I started writing out all of my feelings, and people asked me, 'Have you ever thought of recording your music?' It was something I'd always thought of, but I'd never really had the confidence.

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

If people are given the right circumstances and the right track and the right melody, it's about the conviction. It's not necessarily about being a God-given virtuoso.

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in the broadest sense.

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle.

I don't sit down to write a number one hit. I'm not that good at my job - I don't know how to do that.

I write the best songs I can.

Mike Patton is my mentor, and he releases two to five records a year with many different bands, and he gets stuff done.