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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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.
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I don't know if my songs fit in films.
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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.
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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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 tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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I love writing songs.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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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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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
