About Quote by Charli XCX

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

— Nick Lowe

'Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly…

— Gotye

As an artist, it is heartwarming to see other artists appreciate your work by making covers and renditions of your original track.

— Momina Mustehsan

I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the…

— Dinah Jane

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really…

— Peter Hammill

I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love…

— Ann Wilson

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

— Taylor Swift

When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine…

— Wayne Coyne

No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody…

— Leonard Cohen

Everyone has this idea of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin: the woman being pretty and prancing around while the guy writes all the songs.

— Kemp Muhl

Colin Blunstone did a cover of one of my songs, and the reason I liked it was he changed it completely from my version.

— Denny Laine