Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth..

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I thi….

There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive..

Every song is like a painting..

Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst int….

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song..

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same..

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playi….

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together..

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differentl….

Just take me home where the mood is mellow And the roses are grown M&M's are yellow And the light bulbs around my mirror don't flicker Everybody ….

They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and p….

I only work with a couple of co-writers who I'm really close with, so they always know what's going on in my life and we talk about things openly, th….

I just saw Twilight on TV, for the first time, a few days ago, and, when my song came on, I was just thinking that is so bazaar that I actually had a….

A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica….

We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across sometimes it's wise t….

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you..

He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth..

I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be tha….

Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that fee….

A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works….