Songs Quotes

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. I didn't want the set to be boring. So I'd moved some older songs onto the autoharp, and they worked really well.

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.

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.

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.

People take songs so literally.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.