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.