Brandon Flowers Quotes

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

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.

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

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

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.

I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.

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.

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

It's great when you can write a meaningful song that touches people, but sometimes you just wanna have fun and sing a silly song that doesn't reflect on you as a person.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

There are great songs out there, and if I love them, and I know them, I'm going to sing them just because that's what songs are for.

All I do is make music.

The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that's writing it.