I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
James Taylor

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
Irvine Welsh

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.
Reba McEntire

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
Reba McEntire

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.
Reba McEntire

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.
Peter Gabriel

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
Peter Steele

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.
Peter Steele

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.
Peter Steele

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
Anna Akhmatova

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
Elliott Smith

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
Elliott Smith

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
Elliott Smith

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
Ben Harper

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
Ben Harper

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.
Travis Barker

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.
Travis Barker

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.
Travis Barker

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.
Travis Barker