'Rockaway Beach' is a great song, and so is 'Listen to My Heart.'
'Final Countdown' would be a welcomed tune, even as a competitor.
If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.
('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.
'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.
I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
'Black Skinhead' almost got deaded because it was too much like a soccer song.
'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.
I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.
Ciara’s new single is a complete rip-off of Usher’s ‘U Got It Bad.’
To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.
I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome.
I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.
Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
For me, if 'Maryland' became half of what 'Searchin' My Soul' became, as far as radio play goes, I would be thrilled.
So Am I' is sonically like similar to 'Psycho' and energy-wise.
My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'
If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.
My favorite would be 'Love to Love You' because from zero, I went to Number One. I don't think it's the best song - the best one is probably between 'Flashdance' and 'Take My Breath Away.'
The first song that I wrote that I was proud of was probably 'Hunter' from the first record. But I listen that now and I don't know. I mean, it's got a good hook, but still. I'm proud of it. I'm as proud as I can be of all the ideas, but I think 'Party' showed a maturity that I don't think I had on 'Aldous Harding.'
Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'
