Song Quotes

It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse)

It doesn’t feel like the end of the world. (Davyn) No, it doesn’t…(Stryker) How does the song go, ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine? (Apollymi)

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

Beatle's wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to improve yourself and find happiness.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself

When you write a song, a song has longevity

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

A song ain't why people kill cops.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe it.

There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.

I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.

Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.

A good song is a good song whatever your age.

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

I've always been a MC that wrote socially and politically aware songs, although I listen to all types of hip-hop. This time around I got tracks that make me say "Tupac Shakur would be proud."

Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.

None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.

Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.

If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that?

While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.

The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.