I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody… I am old fashioned.

The songs of separation are the best,they have the best lyrics,the best feelings, the best emotions as they come out of a broken heart.

I don’t write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I’ve ever had has been about 50-50 songs I’ve written or co-written and other people’s songs.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that’s always thinking. A good...

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They’d yell out the names, and we just kept ’em.

I write love songs!

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children...

Panic bells, it’s red alertThere’s something hereFrom somewhere elseThe war machine springs to lifeOpens up one eager eyeFocusing it on the skyWhere 99 red balloons go by

At the end of the day, they’re happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you’ve got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the...

I don’t really like to explain my songs.

I like to look at the songs like they’re little movies.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren’t expecting it.

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don’t know what I’m sorry about.

It’s been the longest timeSince I’ve been in this place,Where I spend my whole dayHoping I’ll see your face.Then I script things to say,And maybe what you’d say back.You don’t know it yet,But, girl, it’s...

I can’t write songs unless I am in love.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

Songs can be like photos – they hold a memory, a moment, and thoughts that keep you warm inside.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I’ve been writing songs for other artists.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I’m explaining my songs I shouldn’t be so direct about who they’re about.

While you’re singing something romantic, I can’t get the lyrics to ‘Love and Marriage’ out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.

People are like songs to me. About 60 seconds in, I’ll know whether or not to add them to my ‘favorites.

Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don’t have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.

I have a lot of songs, and I’d love to do some more recording with the band.

For years, I’ve written narrators who aren’t gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that’s different, obviously. But I’ve always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man’s thing.

I’d love to say that I could write political songs, but I don’t feel clued-up enough.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

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.