Caroline Polachek Quotes

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.

I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted. I can express myself best putting a lot of emotion into singing rock songs.

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.