Brandon Flowers Quotes

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

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

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

I give my heart in every single session I've done, and I get into the music. I love all kinds of music, and I try and really be as authentic as possible and give from my heart.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that I wanted to do.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.