Quotes About Emotion

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.

I like songs that are simple.

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I've always been a songwriter.

I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.

I think part of my job as a songwriter is to go back in my memory and pull up those pains for other people because somebody else is going to come along who didn't have a good issue with their father.

Songwriters tell the truth.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

There's just a certain amount of grandeur and total squalor we exist in as songwriters because it's a crazy job for crazy people.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

'Mr. Misunderstood' - that whole album is incredible and just has amazing songwriting.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

Songwriting has always been close to me.

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

Both with songwriting and playing a role, you're delivering the truth of something in a moment. In a lot of ways, it's the same thing.