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Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM I wanted to get out of school for the day, but if I wrote that, I knew that I wouldn't get picked. I...
EILEEN JOSEPH My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're re...
CHARLIE DANIELS![]()
'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t...
TORI KELLY I stand behind that record totally, and I always want Madonna to do well, ... but the Mount Everest ...
WILLIAM ORBIT I want to find out if the monies are going to be co-mingled. I was promised they would not be. That ...
OSCAR GOODMAN One guy said, 'I have a hard time buying my wife roses when it's her money.'
KARL GRAF![]()
I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. ...
ELLEN BARKIN My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referr...
CHARLIE DANIELS![]()
I didn't want to be a dad under those circumstances. I never wanted to have to have children who wou...
RUSSELL CROWE If these people were spending their own money and not the public's money, I would suggest it would b...
GARY LUNN We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everyb...
THOM YORKE Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE![]()
I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I woul...
DAVID BOWIE I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. ...
NANDAN NILEKANI![]()
I had an amazing feeling when i finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that...
BRAD PAISLEY![]()
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like...
DARLENE LOVE![]()
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ...
KYLE DUNNIGAN I had a hard time even doing my yard in the front 'cause I would go in the front and he would yell. ...
KATHY SHOTA I don't like to be conned, duped. I don't care whether it is five dollars or ten dollars; I want my ...
KAREN JAMES Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly o...
JAMIE KING![]()
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I would make the mistake of playing [songs] for the other guys, and they would pick the three or fou...
STEPHEN STILLS![]()
And I made a rural pen, / And I stained the water clear, / And I wrote my happy songs / Every child ...
WILLIAM BLAKE![]()
I'm the way I am now because I was bullied when I was the lanky, gangly, skinny kid. I was the g...
TREVANTE RHODES When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I u...
PRINCE ROYCE If only I had spent my time spending my money rather than just making it, I would have died a happie...
RVM![]()
I guess I'm the only guy in the world who would listen to those incredibly offensive songs and think...
DAV PILKEY![]()
I guess I'm the only guy in the world who would listen to those incredibly offensive songs and think...
DAV PILKEY![]()
I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have ...
G-EAZY It would be so much easier, Bo, if I was elected county executive and you stayed on as finance direc...
MARK MASLOWSKI![]()
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that ...
TAYLOR SWIFT![]()
I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin...
DAVID BOWIE![]()
You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitre...
MAISIE WILLIAMS![]()
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miam...
CARMEN BUSQUETS I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there poss...
JAKE OWEN![]()
I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a h...
JAMES ARTHUR I was doing what Taylor is doing before Bo and Constantine. I'm not so sure that Bo or Constantine w...
JON PETER LEWIS![]()
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professiona...
WILL FERRELL![]()
My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it w...
BILL BURR The songs on my first album were such that I started really high and by the time we reached the chor...
JANJI VINCE I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. T...
CAM![]()
If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear peo...
JOAN CRAWFORD![]()
It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden ag...
BILL MUMY During the day I would move my body to the rhythm that only I could hear. I would try and connect wi...
THE HIPPIE![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I would sing softly, and if the people at the next table would want to hear what I was doing, they'd...
ALBERTA HUNTER![]()
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebod...
GAVIN ROSSDALE When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who wou...
JOHN FOGERTY![]()
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published an...
ANN PATCHETT Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up w...
DANIEL ADAIR I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.
DONNY OSMOND I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
DANTE HALL It would be hard to get (drafted) high enough where it would be worth it. A lot of people who get dr...
JASON HOOPER![]()
Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song...
CHRISTINE MCVIE Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song ...
DANIEL SMITH![]()
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song...
COREY TAYLOR If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it...
DREE HEMINGWAY I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
BOB SCHAFFER My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a si...
SONU NIGAM![]()
The story took on an importance later that it did not deserve originally. Whether I wrote that story...
BETHANY MCLEAN Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE![]()
Listen to that song, and learn it!
Half my kingdom would I give,
As I live,
If by such s...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
NATALIA MAKAROVA As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy...
WALTER O'BRIEN![]()
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you ...
TED TURNER![]()
I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who...
AIMEE MANN Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would alway...
WIL WHEATON![]()
If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have ...
JAYSON WILLIAMS![]()
I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to l...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I would have waited a few months, and see what was going to happen and see if maybe the taxpayer cou...
DONNA WILLIAMS![]()
I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was...
ELLIE GOULDING Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
CHINGY I have a second-grader of my own and if he grows up to be half the person Bo was, I will be a happy ...
COLEMAN BAILEY![]()
I feel like someone who I wouldn't let my own daughter fuck, and I also feel like someone who, if I ...
MARILYN MANSON![]()
I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if...
COLIN HAY![]()
I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when m...
DAVE GROHL I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited t...
LANDON DONOVAN Gosh, you wouldn't pass up an opportunity like that. It would be pretty cool, but I think there are ...
JANE SAVILLE![]()
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and...
BETHANY MCLEAN![]()
I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get m...
RICHARD LINKLATER Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about tha...
IAN MACKAYE![]()
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi...
VIN DIESEL If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER I often hear or read: “Time is money.” If that would be true, everyone would have exactly the sa...
EMA DAN I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK![]()
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
VIDAL SASSOON It was hard early in the season. It still isespecially if the team is struggling. I want to go in an...
AMY SIEDLECKI It was hard early in the season. It still isespecially if the team is struggling. I want to go in ...
AMY SIEDLECKI Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar wo...
LEILA ABOULELA![]()
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of t...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
SONU NIGAM I wanted to get out of school for the day, but if I wrote that, I knew that I wouldn't get picked. I...
EILEEN JOSEPH My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're re...
CHARLIE DANIELS
'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t... TORI KELLY I stand behind that record totally, and I always want Madonna to do well, ... but the Mount Everest ...
WILLIAM ORBIT I want to find out if the monies are going to be co-mingled. I was promised they would not be. That ...
OSCAR GOODMAN One guy said, 'I have a hard time buying my wife roses when it's her money.'
KARL GRAF
I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. ... ELLEN BARKIN My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referr...
CHARLIE DANIELS
I didn't want to be a dad under those circumstances. I never wanted to have to have children who wou... RUSSELL CROWE If these people were spending their own money and not the public's money, I would suggest it would b...
GARY LUNN We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everyb...
THOM YORKE Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE
I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I woul... DAVID BOWIE I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. ...
NANDAN NILEKANI
I had an amazing feeling when i finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that... BRAD PAISLEY
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like... DARLENE LOVE
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ...
KYLE DUNNIGAN I had a hard time even doing my yard in the front 'cause I would go in the front and he would yell. ...
KATHY SHOTA I don't like to be conned, duped. I don't care whether it is five dollars or ten dollars; I want my ...
KAREN JAMES Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly o...
JAMIE KING
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I would make the mistake of playing [songs] for the other guys, and they would pick the three or fou...
STEPHEN STILLS
And I made a rural pen, / And I stained the water clear, / And I wrote my happy songs / Every child ... WILLIAM BLAKE
I'm the way I am now because I was bullied when I was the lanky, gangly, skinny kid. I was the g... TREVANTE RHODES When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I u...
PRINCE ROYCE If only I had spent my time spending my money rather than just making it, I would have died a happie...
RVM
I guess I'm the only guy in the world who would listen to those incredibly offensive songs and think... DAV PILKEY
I guess I'm the only guy in the world who would listen to those incredibly offensive songs and think... DAV PILKEY
I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have ... G-EAZY It would be so much easier, Bo, if I was elected county executive and you stayed on as finance direc...
MARK MASLOWSKI
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that ... TAYLOR SWIFT
I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin... DAVID BOWIE
You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitre... MAISIE WILLIAMS
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&... EDDIE VAN HALEN I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miam...
CARMEN BUSQUETS I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there poss...
JAKE OWEN
I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a h... JAMES ARTHUR I was doing what Taylor is doing before Bo and Constantine. I'm not so sure that Bo or Constantine w...
JON PETER LEWIS
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professiona... WILL FERRELL
My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it w... BILL BURR The songs on my first album were such that I started really high and by the time we reached the chor...
JANJI VINCE I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. T...
CAM
If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear peo... JOAN CRAWFORD
It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden ag... BILL MUMY During the day I would move my body to the rhythm that only I could hear. I would try and connect wi...
THE HIPPIE
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I would sing softly, and if the people at the next table would want to hear what I was doing, they'd...
ALBERTA HUNTER
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebod... GAVIN ROSSDALE When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who wou...
JOHN FOGERTY
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published an... ANN PATCHETT Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up w...
DANIEL ADAIR I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.
DONNY OSMOND I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
DANTE HALL It would be hard to get (drafted) high enough where it would be worth it. A lot of people who get dr...
JASON HOOPER
Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song... CHRISTINE MCVIE Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song ...
DANIEL SMITH
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song... COREY TAYLOR If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it...
DREE HEMINGWAY I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
BOB SCHAFFER My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a si...
SONU NIGAM
The story took on an importance later that it did not deserve originally. Whether I wrote that story... BETHANY MCLEAN Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE
Listen to that song, and learn it!
Half my kingdom would I give,
As I live,
If by such s... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
NATALIA MAKAROVA As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy...
WALTER O'BRIEN
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you ... TED TURNER
I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who... AIMEE MANN Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would alway...
WIL WHEATON
If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have ... JAYSON WILLIAMS
I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to l... CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I would have waited a few months, and see what was going to happen and see if maybe the taxpayer cou...
DONNA WILLIAMS
I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was... ELLIE GOULDING Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
CHINGY I have a second-grader of my own and if he grows up to be half the person Bo was, I will be a happy ...
COLEMAN BAILEY
I feel like someone who I wouldn't let my own daughter fuck, and I also feel like someone who, if I ... MARILYN MANSON
I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if... COLIN HAY
I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when m... DAVE GROHL I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited t...
LANDON DONOVAN Gosh, you wouldn't pass up an opportunity like that. It would be pretty cool, but I think there are ...
JANE SAVILLE
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and... BETHANY MCLEAN
I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get m... RICHARD LINKLATER Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about tha...
IAN MACKAYE
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER I often hear or read: “Time is money.” If that would be true, everyone would have exactly the sa...
EMA DAN I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo. VIDAL SASSOON It was hard early in the season. It still isespecially if the team is struggling. I want to go in an...
AMY SIEDLECKI It was hard early in the season. It still isespecially if the team is struggling. I want to go in ...
AMY SIEDLECKI Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar wo...
LEILA ABOULELA
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of t... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. 
When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things. 
Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want peop... 
If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates. 
Growing up I had a horrible speech impediment. I stuttered to where I couldn't even talk in class. I... 
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other han... 
Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there. 
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment. 
Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. W... 
I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famou... 