The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
Sheryl Crow

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.
Eric Idle

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
Alanis Morissette

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

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
Sting

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Sting

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Sting

I love songs that are very autobiographical.
Alanis Morissette

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
Alanis Morissette

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
Alanis Morissette

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Alanis Morissette

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.
Alanis Morissette

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

I sing the songs that people need to hear.
Etta James

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
Etta James

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.
Etta James

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
Etta James

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
Etta James