Songs Quotes

Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.