Songwriter Quotes

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

There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.

Everything is everything
What is meant to be will be.
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually.

First they hurt me then desert me,
I'm left alone, all alone
There's no house that I can call my home.

The first thing I want you to know is about dodo's. 'Dodo' is the name of an extinct bird which is big but cannot fly. I made the song likening the 'bird' to bands I like, such as 'a great musician who passed away' or 'the split-up band'. Life is mortal, all things die. The last day will psychically also come to a band. However, I sing this song lightly to oppose these themes, something like "even if I die, I'll be back!" or "Only the pillows won't break up, right!?" It's not a very serious song, more a positive one. This song has an alternative sound, which I really like lately.

There are all different shades of blues. There's all different shades of singer.

"Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the Jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!"
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.

Henry Clay Work

Bring me sunshine in your smile
Bring me laughter all the while.

Everybody told me you can't get far
On thirty-seven dollars and a Jap guitar.

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside
I've got the month of May
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl, my girl, my girl
Talkin' 'bout my girl.

I couldn't think or eat nothin' unless it was Hank Williams, and I couldn't wait for his next record to come out. He had to be, really, the greatest.

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.

Hang all the mistletoe
I'm gonna get to know you better
This Christinas.

I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

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

The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.

That sun is hot and plenty bright
Let's get down to business and get home tonight
Bid 'em in—
Auctioning slaves is a real high art.
Bring that young gal here she's good for a start
Bid 'em in—Get 'em in
Now here's a real good buy only 'bout fifteen
Her great-grandmammy was a Dahomey queen.

I try to place [beautiful imagery] next to fucked up imagery, because that's how I view things … I sometimes feel that no one's taken the time to write about certain things in rock, that there's a certain female point of view that's never been given space.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

I can not draw or paint worth a damn, because I can't see it in my head before I do it. I can sculpt and I do crafts but I can not draw. When it comes to music I can hear it before it happens, which most people can't do.

Blackie Lawless

The family on the other side of town,
Would catch hell without a ghetto around.
In every city you find the same thing going down,
Harlem is the capital of every ghetto town.

Her beauty was sold
For an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going "This shit's happening on the streets." Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less "valid" than Compton?

How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else,
How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself.

Alanis Morissette