Heartbreak Songs Quotes

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

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

On 'Love Letters', I focused exclusively on songs with lyrics, creating a collection of songs that directly address heartbreak and its ensuing emotions in a way that instrumental music can only hint at.

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play it. I just love the sound of it, and I feel like everybody probably has that person that they never fully forget or never can get past.

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you're a torch singer like myself.

I don't want you to feel defeated, like, 'Oh boy, why do you do this to me?' We have too many of those songs.

A lot of country music is sad.

Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact.

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.