Quotes On Music

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

We learned more from a 3-minute record than we ever learned in school.

There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

I live for the feeling of standing on a stage and saying, 'I feel this way,' and the crowd responding with 'We do too!' And me being like, 'Really?' And they're like, 'Yes!'

I have this formula for music. If I continue to write songs about my life, and my life is always changing, then my music will always be changing.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.