Musician Quotes

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

True contentment comes with empathy.

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

I love being in the studio.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

The weird thing is, I'm very private.

I've never really thought of myself as a singer.

I've always had this thing where I can't stop. I hate standing still.

I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.

I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was frowned upon. But in the arts, resistance can often be the strongest inspiration.

For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.

Creatively, I try to always look forward and look at the next thing I want to do.

Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.

I have worked long and hard to try to reduce my debts, and I am devastated that it came to this conclusion. I now intend to focus on the remaining dates of the Westlife tour and my commitments to the band before looking to rebuild a future for my wife, my three children and myself.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.