Songs Quotes
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.
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Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke up this morning. My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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A big section of our audience is young and female. Housewives like our love songs, but then again, everyone likes to dream about love.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
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I love writing songs.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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There's always this weird dark humor within a lot of Depeche Mode songs that people miss, tongue-in-cheek and also very British.
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A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
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I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played...
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I dont separate my work with the band from this solo project-Im sure the group could have recorded any of these, and they would have if the Fleetwood Mac project had come up at this time. I dont have any finished songs lying around.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
