I think either you’re creative or you’re not. In general, I don’t think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you’re writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
Whenever I deal with heartbreak, my therapy is to listen to all the love songs I can to purge my system – and I change my phone number so I won’t be tempted to call or keep expecting him to call back.
I’m extremely happy, but I don’t do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that’s such a personal thing to me. I’d rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.
Some of the best songs are love songs. They’re things that we all go through, and when we’re going through it, we think that we’re the only person in the world going through that. Having that music there sort of reminds you that you’re not alone. It happens to me, too, as a music fan.
I love songs but am inhibited to have my characters burst out to express themselves through songs. I use the route of using old songs at the right places.
People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.
I’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
There are enough really good love songs and I don’t even know if I could write one if I tried.
I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind – children’s songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion.
I love songs with, like, six or seven or eight different things going on at once, and that’s just me.
I’ve been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It’s usually funnier that way, anyway.
The majority of our fans are dudes. And the chicks you do see at our shows are probably there because of a dude. Slayer shows are nothing but sausage fests. We always joke that we really need to write some love songs or something.
Because of who I am, and how open I am, there’s something inherently political about just writing love songs.
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