Songwriter Quotes

The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.

I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat — it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.

Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.

Richard Ashcroft

Honey, I love to go to parties,
And I like to have a good time,
But if it gets too pale after a while
Honey and I start looking to find
One good man.

But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.

You have to blow off your family. You have to blow off comfort. You have to blow off money.... You have to blow off your ego. You have to blow off everything except your guitar.

Townes Van Zandt

I always went in for that Wagnerian approach to rock and roll.

One night I was layin' down
I heard mama and papa talkin'
I heard papa tell mama
Let that boy boogie-woogie
Because it's in him
And it got to come out.

John Lee Hooker

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

We won't have a thing
So we've got nothing to lose…

I know a place
Ain't nobody crying
Ain't nobody worried
Ain't no smiling faces
Lying to the races
I'll take you there.

She said
"I'm young enough
I'm old enough
In the city machine
Where industries
Fill the fish full of mercury"

America is a country with so much opportunity. After returning from a recent trip to West Africa, I gained a new perspective on what our country's colors mean to me. Even in our worst times, we have so much more and give so much. Everywhere I went people wanted to know how they could get to America. On my way home I realized that I now looked at our flag differently. I thought about those that fought so hard for our independence; to give us the right to pursue our dreams.

Katharine McPhee

Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.

Richard M. Sherman

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

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.

Had another dream about the lions at the door
They were not half as frightening as they were before
But I'm thinking about eternity
Some kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me
Walls, windows, trees, waves coming through
You be in me I'll be in you
Together in eternity
Some kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me
Up among the firs where it smells so sweet
Or down in the valley were the river used to be
I got my mind on eternity
Some kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me, and I'm
Wondering where the lions are and I'm
Wondering where the lions are...

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose, And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.

Kris Kristofferson

Oh, Sussex, Sussex by the sea!
Good old Sussex by the Sea!
You may tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the sea!

William Ward-Higgs

To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you!

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Bruce Springsteen

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

What are the wild waves saying,
Sister, the whole day long,
That ever amid our playing
I hear but their low, lone song?

Joseph Edwards Carpenter

No matter what they say the time has come
I'm ready now to start a new beginning
With all our hopes and all our dreams
And I know the stars will shine for you and for me
From the moment you believe.