For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
Matt Damon

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.
Thom Yorke

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.
Howie Mandel

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.
John Bonham

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
Roger Waters

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
Roger Waters

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
Patti LaBelle

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.
Patti LaBelle

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

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.
Courtney Love

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
Shakira

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
Shakira

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Christian Lacroix

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
Shakira

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
Robert Smith

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
Robert Smith

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
Robert Smith

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
Robert Smith

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
Pete Seeger