Songs Quotes
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Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.
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I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
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That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.
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It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
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I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.
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My songs are about who I am.
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I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.
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Now we've finally been able to give them a common home where they work really well as a whole, which is a relief. We didn't want to see them just trickle out randomly or even worse just sit in the vault until the next record or who knows how long. So that's the beauty of technology: We can get songs out to our fans whenever and however we want.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.
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I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.
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If the songs aren't there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares?
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Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
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Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
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All our songs are about love, travel and death.
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It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.
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I think there were a couple really good songs on 'Whirlygig.
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I think my least favourite thing to listen to is perfect songs, perfect performances. They don't feel human to me, and in that respect, they lose any kind of sincerity. I don't know why. It's just my ears.
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All songs have a message whether it's I love you, do you love me or this government sucks in a basic format and then you expand upon your beliefs and your thinking process about what's going on around you in the world.
