Christine and the Queens Quotes

I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.

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

Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.

One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.

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.

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

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.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make my mark in this history book.

In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing some song he hadn't sang in a long time, and it would speak to something, and I would think it had some great fateful implication.