I’d like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

See, I’m a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I’m totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.

I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.

I can’t remember writing any of the songs that I’ve written.

I don’t want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.

I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.

And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these...

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

I don’t let nobody see me wishin’ he was mine

One day that song stopped being on the outside of me and went deep inside. It was there all the time, especially when I was feeling particularly lonely.

We all have lips.” Perhaps that is what we all had in common: no one was allowed to be serious, except about the importance of music, the glory of faces seen in the crowd. We...

Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don’t know what I’m sorry about. I don’t.

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn’t bring me to a concert or an opera.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

That’s what I like to do, I like to make songs.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

Sometimes you’re trapped in writing songs and you don’t have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

I’ve made club songs, and I’ve made radio songs, and I’ve made the car songs.

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It’s never really been addressed, as I haven’t had the time to go out...

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

I don’t want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don’t like songs that feel like radio candy… I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry – they pull some...

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn’t enough time for something to develop musically.

You have broken my heart Like the little kid, I can’t stop crying hitting my feet to the ground and my hands to my head Like the flies Can’t get up from sticky ground I...

I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That’s kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I’m not about...

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I will not promote other people’s songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

I don’t hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

I don’t know why I write really depressing songs. I’m a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I’m about normal.

I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they’re not because I write in the first person.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I don’t know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl But I will always come for you…

I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I’m a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz – Glenn Fredly, Diah Lestari – so 80% jazz, 20% mixed with everything – disco, hip...

I started writing songs at 17.

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

There’s some songs you can cover, and I’ve covered and butchered a few, but you can’t do them all.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don’t even sing their own songs anymore. It’s like producers these days have ghost producers; ‘I don’t produce,...

It’s not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it’s about paying tribute to them.

The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

I don’t really write songs anymore.

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can’t keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

It’s always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It’s more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

I’m not interested in fad songs.