In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.
I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.
I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.
Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.
I don't like to play the same set every night. I think the band would prefer the same 12 songs, to be honest, but if I get bored, then I think the audience gets bored too.
I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it
All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.
When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.
If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
Songs are more powerful than books.
From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.
It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would have to go back in get a full orchestra re-orchestrate it, re-score it, re-record it. It's a massive job. But, if there's a demand we can always discuss it.
One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.
I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
I really got into psych because everything has a really good groove to it and it's nicely spaced out, but ultimately they are just cool pop songs with a little something else that makes them special and unique. They are interesting and have another dimension to them besides a three chord change.