John Prine Quotes

I've never written a happy love song.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

It's usually drawing on personal experience. I don't think I could dig deep enough trying to get into somebody else's life. Like 'Far From Me' - I wrote it about this waitress that I was dating when I was fifteen or so, and she broke up with me.

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

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.'

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.

A first love always occupies a special place.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.

It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.