Ate Quote by Ryan Adams

On Heartbreaker, I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs.…

— Ryan Adams

“Music is fodder for my soul. Without it, I could not have gotten through heartbreak. I could not have traveled so far. I could…

— Kunal Nayyar

I worked hard on making a body of work that takes people on a journey. It was never about making a certain type of…

— Khalid

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a…

— Bruce Springsteen

In Hollywood, famous singer Elvis Presley used to wear gold chains. I was a huge follower of Presley. I used to think, if I…

— Bappi Lahiri

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry,"…

— Johnny Cash

It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew…

— Dionne Warwick

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of…

— Tom Lehrer

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the…

— Hari Kunzru

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

— Mabel

I made records purely for fun - songs that made you feel good. I left the message songs to people like John Lennon.

— Dave Clark

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

— Cyndi Lauper