Song Quotes
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I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.
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The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about this song? Where did the melody come from? I want it to be heartfelt.
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There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
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For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
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I really feel every word to every song a lot more than I have in the past.
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There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
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In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.
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I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.A. or somewhere where we have to rent a car, I'll hear my songs. Sometimes I hear them when I'm in stores, and I'm still like a little kid in a candy shop: 'Oh my God, that's my song!' I don't know how that could ever get old.
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There were a few times where people would be like ‘Make another song like ‘Falling,I have more to offer. I just want to show people that.
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I've been to New Zealand before, many times. And of course it has a significance to me because I do have something that's very special in New Zealand. I have 10 Guitars, which is a very popular song, and I understand it's like the second national anthem over there.
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You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and it's on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it. It's just trippy. What a life.
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There's no real high like finishing a new song, playing it a thousand times in your car, and freaking out with your co-writers.
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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
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If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .
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I want to make something I would find joy in consuming. Personally, I enjoy those projects that are worth me investing time and energy and thought into, to find a work that has more to say than will fit in a 4 minute song.
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When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
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I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case.
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It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.
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It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.
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People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.
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We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.
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Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
