We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
Joni Mitchell

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Joni Mitchell

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
Sarah McLachlan

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
Sarah McLachlan

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.
Sarah McLachlan

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
Garth Brooks

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
Lionel Blue

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
Mick Jagger

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
Mick Jagger

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.
Sean Lennon

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
Neil Young

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
Neil Young

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Chris LeDoux

My songs are just little letters to me.
Ani DiFranco

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
Zac Efron

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
Carlos Santana

We became the songs we wrote.
Barry Mann

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
David Bowie

The words of the songs speak for themselves.
Cat Stevens

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
David Bowie