I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.
Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.
My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting.
I love love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love. There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.
There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.
For me, it's more powerful to hear people sing about God than love in most circumstances because I've been hearing people sing about love for most of my life.
I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.
The earliest music I remember hearing is Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' That was when my momma and my daddy were together, before they went their separate ways.
Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.
I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.
I love, love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love.
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.
When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.
I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.
I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.
I've written many love songs for Gerard. But it's never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.
I love songs, Patty Larkin, Sharon Stone, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe.
How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'
I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'
Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.
You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.
