Song Quotes

I've always used Old English in certain songs.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.

I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.

My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

Your power comes from the songs.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

There's a big song at the beginning [of Sausage Party], and that was really fun to do. It felt like we were living out a dream of being the South Park guys for a minute.

Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.

Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs. We certainly could.

I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.

In law also the emphasis makes the song.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.

Dream Song: The heavens Go with me.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.