The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.
With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U. K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.
I practice yoga and breathing daily along with all the exercises on the instrument. I'm getting more and more monastic about it, especially when I'm on tour, because I'm making songs that are harder to perform all the time. So I no longer smoke and I drink a lot less on tour.
I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
As someone who listens almost exclusively to contemporary hip-hop and R&B, I definitely like "No Bullshit" by Chris Brown, and melodically I'm really into what he's doing - that song is kind of singular because it's got this piano intro and outro. But obviously I'm not singing about what he's singing about. What we want out of our songs is not the same thing.
Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.
If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.
Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.
You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.
There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.
