MO Quotes

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

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

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that's writing it.

If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.

I got a song called 'All That I Got Is You.' I wrote that from the heart.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

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.

Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things.

I keep saying to everyone that one day I'll write a love song.

I write songs that mean something to me because I want to connect with people and make them feel something too.

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

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

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.