I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
Yael Naim
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection... →
I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
Graham Nash
I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?
Meshell Ndegeocello
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
Holly Near
Great songs stand out wherever they're from.
Willie Nelson
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
Randy Newman
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a... →