Song Quotes

I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again, it feels really boring.

If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.

I'm on the edge with you

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?

I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.

When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?

I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is actually pretty good.'

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.

You're ever song I have ever sung. I'll never let anything hurt you again. For the first time in my life, my dreams aren't about me. They're about you." -Jax

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax

I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see.

The production pushes and pulls you as much as the song does. It's almost more to do with the production value of how each bit was done as opposed to the actual track itself.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

I really didn't think about song writing.

Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

When I want to party, I play Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love." That's always been the song that my friends and I get ready to; or before I go on a first date, I play it to feel sexy.

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.