I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Sa….

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall i….

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a ….

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody..

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better..

I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied..

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs..

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with mo….

I do find it easy to write songs about heartbreak; it comes really naturally to me. It was a little bit more difficult for me to break my mould and t….

I have to choose songs that represent my personality..

That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song..

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance..

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that..

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a ….

Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song..

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood..

In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine..

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need..

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar..

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song..

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meani….