Songs Quotes
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When we started this band, we always concentrated on the songs. If we had five good songs together, we wouldn't just slap four more 'okay' ones together just so we could go out and play. That's why we spent so much time in that spoon factory in Sheffield before we went out to play. We did that first gig only because Steve was so pissed off and threatening to quit if we didn't go and play a gig. But there was always that feeling there - that we have to do it right. Or we don't do it at all.
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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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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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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 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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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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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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I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.
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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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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 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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The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.
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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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'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.
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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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All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.
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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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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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Playing my songs is the way I cope with life.
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All our songs are about love, travel and death.
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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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Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.
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It’s good to hear those songs performed so well - congrats to the band.
