Happy people Quote by Nuno Bettencourt

When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world -…

— Gwen Stefani

“The world don't need any more songs... As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't…

— Bob Dylan

We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world.

— Zacky Vengeance

We were just going for growth, bigger sound, just a spectrum of people. More global. That's how we decided to do a song like…

— Taboo

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

— Elizabeth Fraser

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more…

— Iris DeMent

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

— Matthew Ramsey

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it,…

— John Trudell

With our fans, a lot of times, people get upset because maybe they didn't get what they wanted, whatever. But we always write the…

— Robert Trujillo

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

— Taboo

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.'…

— Jonathan Cain

On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but hopefully things…

— Wooden Wand