Eddie Van Halen Quotes

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.

While writing 'The Orientalist,' I played a soundtrack that alternated between ragtime and Azeri mugams, Russian operas and German and Italian pop songs from the 1920s and 30s. When I finally finished, I gorged on all my music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

Pop music is what touches me the most.

We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.

Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

Pop music I have always loved best.

'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to Lenny Kravitz to Coldplay, depending on my mood. And my favorite song of all time is 'Always and Forever' by Heatwave.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.