Quotes About Music

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got an Ivor Novella Award for my very first song.

Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.

I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.

I used to get these reviews in American newspapers saying that they didn't understand what my lyrics were about. I saw that as a compliment. That's exactly what English songwriters should be doing!

One not-to-be-mentioned major said they would sign me if I worked with a team of songwriters to help me finish songs, ha! Of course, in hindsight, I should've done it just to see what that would have been like.

Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.

I'm now working with some of the best songwriters in the world and Sia has written a song that has been given to me. Oh my God, it's just insane.

There are so many songwriters that people don't know about. There's so many producers that people don't know about.

Some songwriters have never been in a band, but the One Direction guys can relate to me, as I've been through the same kind of experiences as they have.

Queen had incredible songwriters.

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

I know I can cut it with any songwriters in the world.

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from Mali, like Ali Farka Toure, they're listening to Brazilian songwriters, like Gilberto Gil, to opera, to Neil Young even, things you don't hear as a kid in Caracas. I love all the music they turned me onto.

In reality - and we've always said this - yes, we are girls, women, but, first and foremost, we're musicians and we're songwriters.

Obviously we're pop songwriters.

I just see us as songwriters.

I like to keep morale up and not take things so seriously all the time. I enjoy life and laughs but I'm serious about the music. Serious about the craft of songwriting.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

Honestly, I've never thought of myself as a mover and shaker of songwriting.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.