I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.
I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.
I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I like it. Hear those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along with. I like those notes very, very much. Give me a beat. Not a fancy one. Give me a GOOD BEAT -- something I can dance to. It has to go boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will hate it very, very much. Also, I want it right away -- and then, write me some more songs like that -- over and over and over again, because I'm really into music.
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.
Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.
In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.
I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.
I wanted to have all the songs to be the strongest they could be and all the choruses to be catchy. One of those records you could put in your car and just drive and not have to change it.
Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.
Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.
I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.
I am a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs.
I think some songs are better on vinyl.