I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do.

I want to do music that holds the heart of five members and send a message to my fans with the song.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

I hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the album.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

My favorite moment in our In This Moment set is when I go out by myself to play a song on the piano.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.

I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

It's pretty much the songs I write that dictate what vibe it should be and what singers it should be.

Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?

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