Songs Quotes

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same.

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

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

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

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

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.