Songs Quotes
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I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.
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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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That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, “Oh my God, this song is totally about me.”
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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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My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.
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The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'
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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 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 don't have many easy songs.
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Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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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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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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I don't know if my songs fit in films.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I'm happy to work with artists who have the right voice and taste.
