Song Quotes

I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

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

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

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

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

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've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

As for hot songs...there are five in Dhoom 3, and I hope they are all hot!

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.