Charlotte Caffey Quotes

When you listen to my songs, you hear messages and real stories. That's what's setting me apart.

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

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 like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

I sing about life.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

What I'm trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you go by the emotion of the song, it's almost like stepping into a city. Cities have certain customs and rules and laws you can break, and that's what I was doing.