Song Relevance Quotes

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

Music fills peoples with life. It doesn't have to be a 'happy song.' If you have that one song that relates to you, whether it's a sad song or a gangster song, whatever relates to you the most in that moment, it can literally get you through the day.

Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

It's funny: Your relationship changes with a song over time. After a year or so, you're a different person, so your songs, you don't connect with them like you did.

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

I think songs can have different lives.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it's a good song and it works on the album.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

I love "Heartbreaker." "Heartbreaker" stands up for me still. It still works to me. The sentiment is still timely and it just works. But I don't want to do that again. I'm not interested in re-creating that. That was great and I'll just leave it there.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

Generally, the songs that are the scariest ones are the ones that people connect to.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.