Song Quotes

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.

My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.

I write songs about what I go through.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.

I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on.

My worst song is stimulating beyond words. My best songs are downright scary.

All my songs instinctively erupted from my guitar and lyrical visions followed the spirit of the music, bot image wise and rhythmical cadence wise. It remains one of life's greatest joys to this day.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

[Miss] Piggy was amazing, I was nervous because I wrote our opening. I wrote the song, wrote what we were going to do. And first I was hoping that they would approve it, because they're not playing.

‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs.

I think I'm a lot happier than people might think from listening to my songs.

Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.

Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.

I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Song is the heroics of speech.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.