Julie Andrews Quotes

If you look at the big rock hits I've had - 'High on Emotion,' for example - the songs I write have to have a real meaning. There has to be depth.

I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

Lyrics are really important for me.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'

I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing it for you. And it's kind of like a fakeness about it.

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

I can't bring myself to release an instrumental album because I feel like I want some meat on the bone. Something to chew on, lyrically and content-wise.

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song. They see the words, they know the tune and they just sing it.

When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.