Song Quotes

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar

One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs.

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible; if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing I can't help listening

Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

I learn my songs by ear.

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.

Madonna has a very unique style and comes up constantly with these great songs.

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.