Famous Song Quotes

Ooh Poo Pah Doo' was a monster song.

'Walk on the Wild Side' was a very catchy song.

I really like the song "Only One" [ Kanye West with Paul McCartney].

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

I had a really great performance with Steven Tyler in the movie 'Be Cool.' I performed 'Cryin',' so we recorded the song beforehand. But I didn't get to meet him until I hit the stage with him, and we had a live performance with 30,000 people in the audience, and that was for the movie.

'I Think We're Alone Now' is one of the all-time great songs.

You can go pretty much anywhere in the world, and people know 'Beat It.' When I was growing up, you heard it everywhere. I remember being a kid and going to school dances and stuff, and they always played it.

There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'

When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.

My aunt, Rosie Gaines, sung with Prince - 'Diamonds and Pearls.' And at the time, I didn't realize how big of a song that was. I just thought, 'Oh, that's my auntie singing with Prince. That's cool.'

I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.

'Billie Jean' was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.

Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

My general audition song is almost always 'Man That Got Away.'

I love doing 'I Will Always Love You.'

Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.

It means a lot to a lot of people, 'Smoke On The Water.'

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.

My biggest song in the world is 'Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You.' All over the world, it's number one on the whole planet.