“I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.” — Christine McVie Quote

I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

'Hold Me' was a nightmare! It was the middle of the desert in Palm Springs, in the height of summer. I don't know what possessed us to do that. But we sometimes do crazy things.

To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.

My stupid ambition is to make a film that's not like any other - one that has its own kind of logic and hooks viewers without making them think too much. It's a film I'd love to see, one in which after 10 minutes the audience isn't able to predict the whole thing.

Guitar Center hooks me up on a lot of stuff.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

I write all my hooks.

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.