Passenger Quotes

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

When I was working on 'Everyday Living,' I was going through a breakup.

With 'Feels,' I was in a really long relationship with somebody, so the songs were about that.

Not to be a bummer, but heartbreak is great for inspiration - we all know that - and it's really hard to write songs if I go through a phase where I don't feel much.

If I ever come out with a very serious, romantic project, you should know that it's because, at that point, I would have experienced a very agitated relationship.

'Night Shift' is the only breakup song I've ever written.

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

It's very hard when you love someone very much to also start to realize that maybe you want different things for your lives.

I'm trying to put the past to rest, but things just keep popping up to just pull me back in.

I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.

I feel like artists and their lyrics are something that people can relate to when it comes to love and break-ups. I really want people to know how I felt when I went through a break up, when I really felt alive, and everything in between.

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.

'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.

You know, when you break it down, 'Broken Vows' is, if anything, more about my parents divorce. And 'Starting Over' was written after I went to a funeral.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

When a relationship ends, all you can do is play in your head everything that happened between you.

Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.