I just love to do the songs, and that's what I'm still about - taking people on a trip. A good trip.
A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
A song like 'Kilimanjaro,' which is such a fun, entertaining track... Singing the song was an amazing experience.
I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.
That's kind of something we - my team and I - text each other a lot. Anytime something great happens, we're like, 'Hey, look, the song's #17. Boom!'
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.
Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.
I did an album called 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.' I sang the song on 'Hee Haw.'
I got recognised for my work in 'Guru' as 'Tere Bina' became extremely popular, but very few people know that I have sung major lyrical portions of the song 'Maiyya' as well.
With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.
I do like performing 'I'll Take Your Man,' because that was a hard song.
I've had three Eurovision winners: two with Johnny Logan and one with Linda Martin and even Jedward did great, because 'Lipstick' was a great song and they had a great show. It was a great visual.
I'm part of this show called "Shots Fired" that is premiering on FOX. It's right after the Super Bowl. It's a pretty incredible show. I'm pretty much the voice of the show, so the voice of the opening credit record and the songs in between is pretty much my voice.
Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.
I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.
To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.
Whenever I sing a song, I just want it to reach out to the audience.
A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.
