Back in the day Quote by Travis Morrison

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being…

— Alan Cumming

I didn't sit down and write a song like, "I want to write a song about this," but I just spent so much time…

— How to Dress Well

I suppose in some ways doing some of the songs in the show felt a bit like I was doing cover versions. I was…

— Kate Bush

We were playing shows still when we wrote 'Phoebe' and 'Rock All Night.' We got to test those songs in a live setting, so…

— Martie Maguire

Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the…

— Cheyenne Jackson

I wanted to play my original music, but it was really hard because a lot of the people who would come out to the…

— Melanie Martinez

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much…

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things…

— Steve Forbert

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

— Kristin Hersh

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written…

— Delta Goodrem

By the time a show gets on, I've written these songs and heard them over and over and over again.

— Stephen Schwartz

I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear…

— Brenda Lee