"Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers."
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"When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. But there's this thing that happens when the song first comes out, that sort of magic when it first comes out of the ether, and you can't even really explain where it comes from. That happens so much with music, and people understand that with music. But I really think that a lot of movie and TV should be the same way."
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"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own"
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"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."
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"Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?"
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"I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song."
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"Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song."
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"The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album."
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"I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling."
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"I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures."
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"In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end."
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"The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven."
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"Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men."
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"Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them"
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"The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death."
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"I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken."
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"I always enjoyed doing transgender songs."
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"I try to project not only a song but a personality."
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"Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song."
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"I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'"
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