Song Title Quotes

Kodak is hard. 'No Flockin' is an amazing song.

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

'Lauder' is a favorite because the name of the song is a friend of mine who passed away.

I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.

The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

The phrase 'pumped up kicks,' man, I was excited when I came up with that.

I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, 'I want to write a song called 'Wanna Be That Song.' Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."

One of my favourite songs is 'A Message to You, Rudy,' which was done by the Specials.

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

We'll Meet Again' is the one that means more to me than anything.

When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.

The first song I ever wrote that I liked was called 'When You're Alone.'

"Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

People know 'Milkshake' like a jingle, but they don't really know who I am.

The song 'Gave It All Away' has a reggae sound.

I did an album called 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.' I sang the song on 'Hee Haw.'

'Bling Bling' was originally a Big Tymers song.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

I think we have to assume we have one life. Though, having said that, I did write a song called 'You Only Live Twice.' I'll settle for that.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.