Pastoral Resources

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.