Avril Lavigne Quotes

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.

I love that Euro-pop dance music, but with girl power. I also listen to Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. I have a Beatles song tattooed on my foot. I'm all over the place.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.

The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

I was an MTV guy back in the day.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.

When I was in high school in the '50s, all pop music - Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - was aimed at teenagers. I loved that stuff.

Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

Mixtapes were the soundtrack, back in my day, of peoples' lives.

I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.

The '80s, no matter what kind of wacky fashion or whatever else that went on in the '80s, the songs that came out of it, there was really great songwriting, in my opinion.

Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The Sex Pistols may come and go, but rebellion remains a key part of the rock n' roll experience. However, that rebellion - the outgrowth of a youthful search for independence and identity - doesn't always take the same form.

I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'

Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing.

It's 33 years since we drew Wham! to a close and a lot of people's perspectives have changed and a lot of the rough edges have been knocked off.

The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

I didn't even know about guys wearing makeup, like David Bowie and Boy George. When I was really young, I wasn't into that - I was into Britney Spears.

I've always sung in the shower and I watched a lot of 'Rage' when I was young.

I had definitely stopped watching MTV by 2000.