I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last it's just product fed to you by the industry.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments write their own songs and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

Yeah I've been interested in music since I was a teenager always writing songs.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals and fairs and karaoke contests and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do as I'm writing a movie is go through all those songs trying to find good songs for fights or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So there's always a new generation with new music.

You know all my songs are relatives brothers sisters cousins.

My music my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

For me singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light out of the darkness.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I loved old black and white movies especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs the music the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production just like most of my movies were.

I went to Morocco joined a band called Pegasus ran out of money went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.