Songs Quotes

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.

For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce.

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?