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

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 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.

There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what...

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.

Music gives strength to the soul.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time...

At one time musical theater, particularly in the ’40s and ’50s, was a big source of pop songs. That’s how musical theater started, really – it was just a way of linking several pop songs...

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, “when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair’s off to one side and I feel like I’ve...

I’m not going to be rockin’ n’ rollin’ when I’m 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you’re 50.

It’s great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they’re familiar with.

Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you’re referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That’s what my next...

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I’m going through and whatever people are going through.

Victory’s contagious” -Lorde

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

What I’m most pleased about is that there’s no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better – there’s a consistency.

Some songs are never just ordinary songs, they become the memories you collect in your life.

Like a comet pulled from orbit, As it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, Halfway through the wood. Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better? But because I...

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I’m not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

So don’t fall in love, there’s just too much to lose; if you’re given the chance then I’m begging you choose to walk away, walk away, don’t let it get you. I can’t bear to...

The shadow of a character is defined by its maker…while a heroine is personified by its actions and relatability. So writers can create a world with a heroine that has impact and finish with everessence...

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody’s ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There’s only one of those.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

That’s where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn’t even...

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.