Songs Quotes

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?

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.