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It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?