Song Quotes
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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It'll sometimes hit me in the middle of a song, like, who do I think I am standing up here...playing.
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'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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The video's kinda sad ... but it's a sad song, so the video obviously has to follow that. But it ends really happy and everything and the family, my family, ends up breaking the cycle of my parents.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.
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You can write every song on an album in E and not hurt a thing.
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Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
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In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
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'Wuthering Heights' was not your normal type song - but that's why it was so brilliant. It was something out the norm. When something like that comes along, they don’t come along that often. When does the next Kate Bush come along, after Kate Bush? There hasn’t been one.
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If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.
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I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.
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I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
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Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
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Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!
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The song of canariesNever varies,And when they're moultingThey're pretty revolting.
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I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
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In fact, on a side note, after the success of the first record, I got asked to write for some pop artists, as everybody does, and I did a couple songs for some of these massive stars and the review that I got back was, "This artist likes the song but it's too POP-y for them." I was like, "What do you mean, I thought I was writing for a pop star."
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To convince another part of the world that Bollywood is not just jokers who break into song and dance was very difficult. I'm literally ploughing the ground and making people understand that Indian actors are not a joke.
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I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodies and all that.
