Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

I cry every chance I get.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

I write a lot of sad songs!

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’

One does not always sing out of happiness.

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

Tears are words that need to be written.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.