Songs Quotes

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

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.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.