Song Quotes
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
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I've always been a fan of Five For Fighting's song 'Superman.' It's like an anthem, and I love it.
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I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.
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I can't wait to see someone else from Louisville make a hit song 'cos that'd be dope. I can only imagine how J Cole would feel if somebody just came out of Fayetteville and started booming with some crazy records.
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Impersonating Celine) 'Zis next song iz for all ze parents in zer audience, and also zer children'...(looks puzzled).... that's just everybody, right?
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what's happening, it's so much easier for us to write a song that's specific to them.
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Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
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'Too Young to Fall in Love' is an earlier cut from Motley Crue, but it's one of their best. I'm so drastically different as an artist from their sound, but the challenge of making it my own is what makes doing a cover song fun.
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
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I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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A love struck Romeo, sings a street-suss serenade;Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made.Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shade'N' says something like, 'You and me babe, how about it?'
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I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called 'Kitten.'
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.
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The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.
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So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
