My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

The people in my songs are all me.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

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

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

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

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

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.

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 know was there until I let it out.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.

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

I started writing songs at 17.

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

Every battalion has its marching songs.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

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.

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

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

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.