Songs Quotes

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

My songs grow on people - like warts.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.