J. Tillman Quotes

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

My favorite song that I wrote is 'Love Line.' This was my first song that I wrote lyrics for, and I really wanted to express the feeling when you're in love and hoping the other person feels the same way.

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

There hasn't been a great romance in my life.

In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing.

Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.

I am an incurable romantic. I am even in love with the idea of being in love, and hence, I write a lot of love songs.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.