Prolific Songwriter Quotes

Oh, God. Mate, I've written about 800 songs, and that's no exaggeration!

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

I want to say that Beck is incredible. He is an art machine.

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'

I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.

If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.

Lil Wayne is the best rapper on Earth. Can't nobody touch him. He's the only guy who can put out 300 songs a year and they all fire.

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.