Song Quotes

As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

You won’t hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg – unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.

I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, ‘I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.’

Everything I write is based on true story. So now I’m just experiencing things and letting the songs come to me.

I know not every song has to be a powerful message.

I could blow up from making a beat or I could blow up from making a song.

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.

Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

My father’s songs don’t intimidate me; my father’s songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There’s no intimidation.