John Prine Quotes

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

The crime of loving is forgetting.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

With 'Feels,' I was in a really long relationship with somebody, so the songs were about that.

You're in this heightened emotional state from the beginning of the play. It's like when you first have your heart broken.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

The strongest feelings I've had in my life are when love has gone right and when love has gone bad. And I think strong feelings make good songs.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

You're not sick you're just in love.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.