Top 15 Diane Warren Quotes

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

I’ve been in grocery stores, and if they’re playing my music, I’ll yell, ‘Hey! I wrote that!’ I’ve been next to cars and have done that!

I’ve been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I’ve worked with the best singers ever, and I’m lucky that way.

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I’ve wanted to run the gamut of artists.

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

What makes a great song – you don’t put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.

A lot of people give up, but you can’t stop me. If you close the door, I’ll just jump out the window.

Cher hated ‘If I Could Turn Back Time.’ I had to beg her, literally, on my knees, just to try it. Happens all the time.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted – I’ve always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

I like to start with an idea, but then again, I might be sitting at the keyboard, and just playing a bunch of chords that sound cool together, and something just inspires an idea from that.

I know what it’s like to have a broken heart. I know what it’s like to feel pain: When my songs don’t become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

I was born loving music. It was always my friend.

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn’t delusional. I knew I had talent.

I usually don’t write songs by people calling me and saying, ‘Write a song about this.’ Usually I’m just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

I’m totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I’m not a nice L.A. person.