Big Sean
Related DAVID BOWIE I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been beca... BILLY ECKSTINE ALAN WALKER DAVE MATTHEWS ALVIN LEE Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian R... CASEY ABRAMS It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car... MERLE HAGGARD ANNA DEAVERE SMITH What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is ju... ZEDD SHAWN MENDES I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &... FEFE DOBSON Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a... ROSE BYRNE DAVE MATTHEWS YAEL NAIM NAIMA ADEDAPO DRAKE SAM HUNT 'Watchmen' is like the music you feel is written just for you. 'That's my song, no o... ZACK SNYDER CARLY SIMON ERIK LARSON BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me. Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I u... JENNA DEWAN Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writin... BILL CALLAHAN Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's somethi... DAVE GAHAN CHARLI XCX BLAKE SHELTON FETTY WAP I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of wor... F. GARY GRAY Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you&... BENNY BLANCO KELSEA BALLERINI I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But wh... ETGAR KERET BECKY G For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's wei... SAMPHA Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where th... JOEL HODGSON I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a... KIESZA There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Nee... VALERIE SIMPSON ALESSIA CARA Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. I... JOE ELLIOTT LIL UZI VERT TYLER, THE CREATOR PAUL MCCARTNEY LADY GAGA RICK RUBIN When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to ... GRIMES I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise tha... TED NAIFEH Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes fro... VANCE JOY 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ... BARRY MANILOW ANNA KENDRICK LEA THOMPSON JAY-Z RICK RUBIN I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a s... EMELI SANDE All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when... MIKE POSNER I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from... ROBERT PALMER 'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs... KELLIE PICKLER DANICA PATRICK That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the en... JESMYN WARD Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's... LAURA OSNES MITCH ALBOM My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song... WYNTER GORDON REBA MCENTIRE BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel... SABRINA CARPENTER AMY WINEHOUSE JAMILA WOODS At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I re... MADISON MARLOW NICK CAVE HALSEY YOUNG THUG CHARLI XCX SAM HUNT When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just somet... ASHLEY MONROE I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why... ZEDD With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can im... VINCE CLARKE Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a s... JENNA DEWAN Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?' DARON MALAKIAN PSY As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thin... NATE RUESS BEBE REXHA JOE NICHOLS I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they... BILLY ECKSTINE I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every... MIKE POSNER A lot of my fans wanted a kind of 'in your face' song. They wanted a song that exemplifies m... LA'PORSHA RENAE Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something ... AGNES OBEL I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song i... HOZIER PETER ACKROYD CASEY KASEM When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi... TINK If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had... MARSHAWN LYNCH I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort ... PHOEBE TONKIN BRYSON TILLER ARTHUR MILLER CHARLIE ROWE I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in ... ROBERT HUNTER ROBERT STACK I know that song writing is probably the most mystical of the things that I do, in a sense that I'm ... PAUL WILLIAMS I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones,... ROBERT BRINGHURST STEVE PREFONTAINE CARRIE UNDERWOOD Any time I'm trying to find that groove on a big tempo song, I go back and listen to some Aerosm... CHRIS YOUNG
More Big Sean
I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my o... BIG SEAN I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed v... BIG SEAN Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt. BIG SEAN I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def... BIG SEAN I've definitely stolen a lot of things. BIG SEAN Adidas is just right. They've been, like, a partner I couldn't be more thankful for. I reall... BIG SEAN My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master&#... BIG SEAN Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like... BIG SEAN Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era. BIG SEAN You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in ... BIG SEAN I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. BIG SEAN It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, ... BIG SEAN Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it. BIG SEAN I definitely consider myself a Christian. There's things that I believe in, there's things I... BIG SEAN Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking ... BIG SEAN For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, We... BIG SEAN With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style. BIG SEAN I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I... BIG SEAN The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m... BIG SEAN There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. BIG SEAN I think a lot of my fans are anxious for more than just my singles. They know I'm a dreamer. The... BIG SEAN It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Bein... BIG SEAN Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life. BIG SEAN People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person. BIG SEAN When I'm home, I cook my own dinner, all organic. BIG SEAN I'm a Detroit player, they set styles. BIG SEAN It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that. BIG SEAN I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold. BIG SEAN I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit ... BIG SEAN I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw... BIG SEAN My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too.... BIG SEAN I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it. BIG SEAN I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach. BIG SEAN BIG BOI I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper. BIG PUN BIG SMO BIG SMO BIG BOI The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world. BIG PUNISHER Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm say... BIG PUNISHER I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper. BIG PUNISHER I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base. BIG PUNISHER BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG SMO BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI One thing we've learned about our fans, if they like our music, they like it in a big way, and the p... BIG KENNY We want people to just be honest, if you like something, say you like it, if you don't like somethin... BIG KENNY I'm Big, and he's Rich, I'm Big, and he's rich . BIG KENNY We know the only thing we could do wrong is stop doing what we are doing. BIG KENNY We make it a complete piece of music. BIG KENNY I never one time saw John dancing on top of a grand piano. BIG KENNY I love everybody in Nashville. I love the music that's coming out of that place, and I really do bel... BIG KENNY We did not have the right attitude for a big label. Our sound was much more street. BIG BROVAZ BIG SMO BIG BOI BIG SMO BIG SMO I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base. BIG PUN I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.' BIG PUN The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world. BIG PUN I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of... BIG PUN Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I&#... BIG PUN BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI BIG BOI I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. BIG BILL BROONZY You have to carry a suitcase full of spare assholes for every time you have to bend over and take it... BIG RAY MORROW Don't forget your suitcase. BIG RAY MORROW How you ever gonna reach the starsBIG TIME RUSH You never know when (something like this) may happen again. BIG BEN ROETHLISBERGER I read it right, I just didn't throw it good. BIG BEN ROETHLISBERGER Coming into this year, I felt a little more comfortable. I've always taken that mentality, that I'm ... BIG BEN ROETHLISBERGER I think the guys have kind of accepted that with me and I think I try to go on the field and play th... BIG BEN ROETHLISBERGER I think they can count on me. And I want them to be able to count on me. BIG BEN ROETHLISBERGER Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't ha... BIG BILL BROONZY SEAN COMBS There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people.... SEAN SPICER SEAN CONNERY SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN YOUNG SEAN COVEY I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want t... SEAN HANNITY Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. SEAN O'FAOLAIN SEAN COMBS I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of f... SEAN SPICER For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundr... SEAN DUFFY SEAN BEAN SEAN PENN There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it crea... SEAN O'FAOLAIN By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits ou... SEAN PAUL SEAN BALTZ I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and the... SEAN ASTIN SEAN COMBS There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion... SEAN O'CASEY Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essent... SEAN O'CASEY The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's ... SEAN O'CASEY SEAN CONNERY Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on... SEAN O'CASEY Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other thing... SEAN O'CASEY SEAN PENN We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels li... SEAN LENNON Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, whe... SEAN O'CASEY The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. SEAN O'CASEY SEAN PENN The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying i... SEAN O'CASEY SEAN CONNERY Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbol... SEAN O'CASEY Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities... SEAN O'CASEY Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and wi... SEAN O'CASEY SEAN ADAMS The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a mi... SEAN O'CASEY SEAN CONNERY Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cor... SEAN O'CASEY If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they SEAN O'CASEY SEAN BALTZ The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. SEAN O'CASEY All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. SEAN O'CASEY SEAN COVEY SEAN COVEY Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in man... SEAN MACBRIDE SEAN PENN In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding... SEAN BRADY You're going to see a rise of the white male voter who feels like they're not secure, their ... SEAN DUFFY As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused ... SEAN DUFFY There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it crea... SEAN O'FAOLAIN SEAN PARKER SEAN BERDY SEAN CONNERY My liberal friends, Congressional Black Caucus members, talk about fighting for the defenseless, the... SEAN DUFFY Kellyanne is the first female campaign manager of any major party to win a presidential general elec... SEAN SPICER I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegi... SEAN MAGUIRE SEAN BEAN Victory is the child of preparation and determination. SEAN HAMPTON A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere. SEAN HAMPTON SEAN MAHER SEAN PARKER SEAN YOUNG SEAN COVEY The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all us... SEAN O'CASEY The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convert... SEAN ASTIN I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me ... SEAN KINGSTON We had a cat in college named Chloe, and it was the most evil, awful cat in the world... When we lef... SEAN HAYES I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown th... SEAN QUINN SEAN COVEY SEAN BEAN It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to o... SEAN BOOTH SEAN COVEY The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chantin... SEAN DURKIN In Cape Town, there's a drive from Cape Point to Camps Bay where the road is hewn out of the cli... SEAN PERTWEE If Scott Brown can win in a state that President Obama won by 26 points, I can win in a district tha... SEAN DUFFY SEAN COMBS I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box. SEAN KINGSTON I listened to George Carlin when I was a kid and knew every word of his routines. SEAN HAYES SEAN PENN SEAN COMBS SEAN BEAN I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful. SEAN BOOTH
These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physi... 
I actually admire the Indian artiste 'Lost Stories.' He made a remix of my song 'Faded.&... 
If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song get... 
That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's l... 
I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous an... 
I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as... 
The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make som... 
Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just le... 
I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like a... 
I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authen... 
I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me. 
Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't. 
When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfo... 
I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it... 
I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was of... 
I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's ... 
I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from m... 
The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... 
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they&... 
As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don... 
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... 
Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a... 
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, '... 
When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song writt... 
I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music... 
I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It&#... 
Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfel... 
I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe... 
I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it ... 
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song... 
But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a son... 
I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute... 
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and... 
It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is a... 
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I ca... 
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... 
If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap... 
I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I a... 
I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.' 
When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to... 
I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message... 
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All Th... 
I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain... 
I can't wait to see someone else from Louisville make a hit song 'cos that'd be dope. I ... 
It is a lie. 
I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so... 
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyte... 
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something bea... 
The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definite... 
Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man. 
My playground is full of moonshine, mason jars, beer bottles, and bonfires. 
I'm just a cool type of guy who's all about positives. 
When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul... 
I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and a... 
My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I... 
Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by pu... 
Some age, others mature. 
I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.' 
I don't really like doing interviews. 
You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice thing... 
Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way the... 
Working in a garden calms me down. 
Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you&#... 
I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth. 
I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their ... 
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you fin... 
When everything gets answered, it's fake. 
Work is a part of life, not the point of it. 
Once you understand life----you understand life's potential. 
Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critica... 
There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Eit... 
The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers neve... 
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just ge... 
Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the firs... 
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on ... 
You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will,... 
Jimmy McGovern - I love his writing, and I'm a big fan of him and Alan Clarke. 
Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to... 