Quotes About Art

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.

My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover in retrospect when looking back at the songs how my life is going!

If I had a label, everything would have been easier. But it wouldn't have been the same album, from the cover art to the songs on it.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

I'm a lover of songs.

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

I like songs that are simple.

I want to create songs that will last across time.

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

If you aren't already a songwriter, try it. When you can say what you want to say, in your own words, it's incredibly easy to show an audience who you are.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.