Music Quotes

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

I felt like, for so many years - and I still even feel it - as a girl, you can't really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don't really think that hard.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

Life and love go on, let the music play.

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.