Song Quotes

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

I think to me, all songs are stories.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra next to a song that has other things?" I just work on it as-needed.

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.

I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.

If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records.

Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet.

Another important time when I feel most alive is when I hear a song that I love so much that all I can do is dance - I feel so free!

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.

Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.

Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

People take songs so literally.

Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

Don't worry about what you don't have if you do have faith!

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet Because I'm scum And I'm your son I come undone

I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.

Everyone likes at least one Elvis song....Me, I love them all. He was, is and will remain the ultimate rock star.