Songs Quotes
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I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.
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I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.
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I'm hoping to play some of the songs that we didn't get to play on the headline tour we just did. I think we really want to play all the songs on the new record. It's hard to choose between them, but I think we'll pick a couple that we haven't played live so far.
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I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
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Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
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I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.
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What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
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I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.
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Your power comes from the songs.
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My original intention was to use it just for improvised, soundscape-y stuff, but I ended up falling in love with it. So I put it on a lot of the songs. It's not anything that I'm proficient on, but in the studio, if I spend a day working it, I can shimmy my way around.
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I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
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I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
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My music chart rankings need to be good so that I can have the money to produce another album. I would like to hear that I am a trustworthy artist, that just hearing my name makes people want to listen to all of my other songs.
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They write songs about California girls for a reason.
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I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.
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Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.
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She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.
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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
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It was just a mercy f**k, as it was our 30th anniversary. They gave Grammy to us for a cover of somebody else's song. It would have a lot more meaning if it had been for one of our songs.
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When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
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You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
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I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.
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When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
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I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
