English Songwriter Quotes

I never did feel like a star. I was always uptight about something and uncomfortable and not very good. I felt weighed down by it, the pressure. It's terrible I should have enjoyed it but I didn't; I was thinking about what we should do all the time, I wasn't able to run with it.

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day...

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

Adelaide Anne Procter

We'll be raising our hands
Shining up to the sky
Cause we've got the fire fire fire
And we gonna let it burn

I wanna love you
I wanna be a better man
I don't wanna hurt you
I just wanna see what's in your hand.

I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion...

For when our hearts were far away, Your love went further still, yes Your love goes further still!

As a boy, I had sighed over the mysteries of multiplication; addition had added materially to my distress, and subtraction taken away much of my repose.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Is this the way they say the future's meant to feel? Or just 20,000 people standing in a field. And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is. But that's okay 'cos we're all sorted out for E's and wizz.

I see the Time and Motion clock,
Is sayin' nearly noon,
I 'spec me squirt of water,
Will come flyin' at me soon,
And then me spray of pellets,
Will nearly break me leg,
And I'll bite the wire nettin'
And lay one more bloody egg.

It is amorphous, but basically it always has the same job, which is to get you through the day. And that seems to me to be a profoundly important job; it is like fresh bread.

When on a long weekend away without the internet on your phone, you realize what's truly important in life. The internet on your phone.

Dylan is to me the perfect symbol of the anti-artist in our society. He is against everything – the last resort of someone who doesn't really want to change the world... Dylan's songs accept the world as it is.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.