Songs Quotes

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

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.