Neneh Cherry Quotes

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or 'I am feeling that' then I write it down and we just continue building the album from there.

When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.

I'm hoping that people will love the music, but at the same time, the most important thing to me is that I love the music.

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

It's so hard to listen to an album you created and without remembering where you were when you wrote it or referencing the the recording experience.

I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

I sit around and try to play along to certain songs that I really love. It helps you explore new territory.

A lot of my vocals were the first time I ever sang the song.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

Music's my life, and it always has been.

Ultimately, you're looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling.

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.