Anthony Doerr Quotes

I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Russian work songs can make you suffer.

Ani DiFranco - I love her.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

It's nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment.

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.