Diane Warren
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.Collection: Cool
Maybe my songs are my partner. How 'bout that? Yeah, the biggest relationship I have is with my songs.Collection: Relationship
I've never been in love. I know, it's weird.
I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or 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.
What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.
I was born loving music. It was always my friend.
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.
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.
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'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 would never want to get married.
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 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'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!
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 don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'
I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person.
I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me.
I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.
I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.
Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.
Oh yeah; I love when I'm writing something that makes me cry - that's so cool. If it got me to do that, it's going to get someone else to do that.
I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.
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.
When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.
I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.
I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song.Collection: Song
You should listen to songs and listen to what works. Listen to why a song is a hit. Check it out-not to imitate it, but there are certain things that work-hooks and melodies. Hear what works through the ages.Collection: Song
A lot of people give up, but you cant stop me. If you close the door, Ill just jump out the window.Collection: Giving Up
Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.Collection: Long Distance Relationship
What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.Collection: Song
One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.Collection: Song
I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.Collection: Loss
If you asked me to I'd let you in my life forever. from If You Asked Me ToCollection: Love
I'm falling into you This dream could come true And it feels so good falling into you from If You Asked Me ToCollection: Love