Poetic Verses Quotes

I am very fond of ghazals. I like ghazals from Jagjit Singh and Sir Ghulam Ali.

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.

I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not.

With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.