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I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.
As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.
When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.
My mum dated a guy from Liverpool. The Liverpool fans made up a song that she 'loves Scouse c*ck'
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.
I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.
I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.
I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?
I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever.
My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.
I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days
Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.
With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.
It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.
I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.
If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.
I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet.
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.
Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.
People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio
I know this song!’ Rosie laughed. ‘If you didn’t, that’d be the final proof that you’re from Mars.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.
Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.
You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.
Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.
You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.