Songs Quotes
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I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the background of the first Project album.
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Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.
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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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We wrote with Harry. It was a lot of fun. He's a real dude actually. We've no idea if those songs will make it yet, though. It's a long process. It's great to work with other people - it's good to flex the muscle.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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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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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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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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I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
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Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.
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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 have seen this demo of six songs that began floating around in 1996 claiming that Commit Suicide had written those songs. I did have a synth band called Commit Suicide between 1984-1986 with two gentlemen called Jens Andersson and Jens Svensson, and two of the songs on this demo where written and performed by us. The problem is that the other four songs (are) skinhead music with very racist lyrics. These songs have absolutely nothing to do with Commit Suicide. We did not write or perform those songs that were attributed to us.
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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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When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.
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I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
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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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The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.
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It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.
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All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.
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Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star
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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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Our image, if we have one, has been shaped only by me, Tom and Richard and the songs we write.
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It’s good to hear those songs performed so well - congrats to the band.
