I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Lady gagas "hair" is my theme song.
I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.
Well, you stood there with me in the doorway, my hands shake, I'm not usually this way. But you pull me in and I'm a little more brave. It's the first kiss, it's flawless, really something, it's fearless.
The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.
So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way-- listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos….Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love.
My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.
I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.
(Talks about a school production) 'There was one solo; but it was a guy. It was this character called 'Freddy Fast Talk' and it was the bad guy. I didn't care, I was like I will dress up like a guy, I want to sing that song. And so I remembered we drew on eyebrows, and I had like a moustache,and we put all my hair up in this hat. So I dressed like a guy and sang the solo.
I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.
I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.
The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever.
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.
When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be, like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
I don't need to edit names out of songs and I don't need to edit details out of my songs because I've always been able to be honest with my music. That's the one place where I'm never ever going to change how I do things.
I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
