MO Quotes

Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

Music inspires me.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

My music is inspired by where I am and what I'm feeling at the time. Traveling and meeting new people is also incredibly inspiring to me.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.

I remember when I did 'Live SheckWes, Die SheckWes,' and when I did 'Mo Bamba,' I one-taked those because it came from my heart.

Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday.

When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred years, or a place that has been, or that was - in your imagination. I think that also embodies the American spirit. You are looking for what you can call "a place."

I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.