Cody Simpson Quotes

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn't fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural.

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try to find the things that everyday people deal with in their everyday lives and situations in the songs that I sing.

I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties.