Heartfelt Lyrics Quotes

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.

I've liked country music for as long as I can remember, especially the songs of Dolly Parton. Her lyrics are similar to mine: simple, expressive, from the heart. Our voices are in the same kind of register, too.

Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'

When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.

One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

'If I Loved You.' All the way. Totally intimidated by it. From the outside, it has this aura of being one of the greatest musical theater scenes ever written.

Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.

I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.

Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

Love songs in particular are so compelling because love is probably the strongest emotion you can have, and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Not everyone's really got the heart to talk about what's going on with their love in their music.

I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it.

My strength has always been slow songs, so I never deviated from that, I always took care of my base and that's just doing slow songs and just pouring out my heart in songs.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

I can't write songs unless I am in love.