quotes by Songwriter Quotes

“Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.”

“Who needs action when you got words?”

“When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things.”

“I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.”

“I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.”

“I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheetI'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat”

“I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals”

“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

“I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.”

“I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.”

“There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it.”

“Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble.What we need is loveTo guide and protect us on.If you hope good down from above,Help the weak if you are strong now.”

“And, because my role in society - or any artist or poet's role - is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not to...they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. … If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that - they're reflections of society... Mirrors.”

“You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can't wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement.”

“In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.”

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

“People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.”

“Came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain. An asshole, that role I think I succeed in fulfilling. Dont think I ever stopped to think I was speaking to children. Everything was happening so fast, it was like I blinked, sold three million.”

“There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all”

“I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.”

“There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?”

“I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.”

“The future of rock belongs to women.”

“Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.”

“People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.”

“A foolish dog barks at a flying bird”

“What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.”

“If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.”

“As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment.”

“Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.”

“There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life - and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.”

“Come together, right now.”

“Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.”

“The sky is falling, the wind is callingStand for something, or die in the morning”

“Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.”

“The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.”

“I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.”

“I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.”

“Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.”

“I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'”

“I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.”

“My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.”

“I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.”

“I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.”

“I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.”

“I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”

“When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.”

“I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.”

“I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.”

“Everybody looking at you crazy,What you gon' do?Lift up your head and keep moving,Or let the paranoia haunt you?”