I felt that group vocals for ‘Airplane’ coming from all the BTS members who’ve been together through this journey would create an even more heartfelt song.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that’s just the way it is.

All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve – Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit

I never produce a song – whether writing it, or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I’m like a trifecta.

Roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.

I watched ‘Disco Dancer’ when I was very young. I have always loved its songs.

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

Recording a song for a film doesn’t take much time; it’s hardly an hour’s job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I’ve to take time out to work on my albums because I’m passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.

We want our music to reach everybody, so we’re using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.

We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

‘Bloo’ is a compilation of a few songs I’ve written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it’s OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

It’s weird, because the ideas in my songs aren’t controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn’t have a unique perspective.

I love singing devotional songs, in whatever language.

My Favorite Songs Are My Favorite Songs Because They Just Feel Like A Certain Moment, Or A Certain Photo, Just A Snapshot For Whatever Three Or Four Minutes The Song Is

My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

I’m an emotional singer, and I put all of myself into my songs.

Our stories don’t make their homes in heavy books. We hold our stories in our songs.

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can’t tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

I’ve been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I’ve been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

After I graduated from high school, I was like, let’s see what happens. I took the time to develop my artistry and my songs, and tried to figure out who I am and what my message is.

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality

I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly… I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it’s doing the little 15 second covers, I’m working on my craft, and it’s really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn’t want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.

A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn’t matter who you are, and that’s truly what I believe.

I think a show is more of an interacting with fans than you just singing songs.

I decided at 15 that I didn’t want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don’t mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I’ve had, things I’ve been through, and even the stuff I’m embarrassed about.

I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people.

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. We sightless children had the best of eyes that day in our hearts and in our finger-tips. We were glad from the child’s necessity of being happy. The blind who have outgrown the child’s perpetual joy can be children again on Christmas Day and celebrate in the midst of them who pipe and dance and sing a new song!

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

Having not really written any generational songs – I think maybe two or three of the songs that I’ve ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.

I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.

There are people I’ll always love to listen to, and I’m always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.

Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it’s my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.