Song Quotes

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

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

I wouldn't have a No. 1 record or song if I wasn't a hardworking person.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.