Song Quotes

I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

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

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.

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

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.