Songs Quotes
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.
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I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.
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All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.
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Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
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We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
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It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.
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When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.
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It’s good to hear those songs performed so well - congrats to the band.
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We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
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'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.
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I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'
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I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.
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All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice.
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The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.
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Some of the songs I have completely forgotten about. It's a lot of fun to go and revisit them.
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For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
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I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
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To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.
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We always try to make up a new signature dance for our songs.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.
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Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt that they weren't really for me. But I think that happens naturally when you write songs. You're in a different mood in every session. There's so many songs out there that could potentially be used by other artists.
