Song Quotes

When you write a song like ‘Forrest Gump,’ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say ‘he,’ or I’ll make songs about guys, and I say ‘she,’ or sometimes they’re exactly what they’re about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.

A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

I’m all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they’re just listening to the song.

Half my mind is sex and songs.

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.

I think I’m an old soul, That believes in the idea of true love and royalty, loves old songs, looks for real in the world full of pretence.

You can change your emotion immediately by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.