Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.

“In India, just so you know, May 3 is National Broken Hearts Day. And in Papua New Guinea, there exists a tribe whose men…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When I was younger it was a lot of quantity over quality. Just writing, writing, writing. Hundreds of songs. Now it's fewer songs. If…

— Lights

Everyone is scared of having a free sexual life and what they do is go on the Internet and masturbate. This is the pure…

— Olivier Zahm

That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written…

— Jane Green

My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation…

— Josh Turner

I don't really have the voice for love songs, do I?

— Lemmy

My contribution is the romance and the warmth. The love songs.

— Christine McVie

I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else.…

— Ben Drew

I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant struggle— you…

— Caleb Followill

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should…

— Devendra Banhart

We used to have a nanny who was obsessed with Take That. She was in love with Mark Owen and her room in our…

— Martin Kemp

Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just control that…

— Ed Sheeran

I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

— Sigrid

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving…

— Jason Mraz

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

— Adele