Jane Wiedlin Quotes

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.

I always just wanted to write a love song to my wife that wasn't cliche.

I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?

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

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like 'XO.' In my brain, I thought, 'This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.' As a songwriter, it's your job for the song to take twists and turns that people don't expect.

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

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

I really love writing themes and melody.

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 love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.

I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.

I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so many other things than just funny.

I think if every song I had was, 'I love you, you love me,' there would be a problem.

I love exploring the more complicated side of love. I feel like I've always gravitated toward that.

I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.