Bonnie McKee Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I had an epiphany where I realised that there are song titles everywhere - in advertising, in conversations with people at the grocery store - and every time I open my mind to that and find titles, I then weave a story around that.

  Bonnie McKee

  Song, People, Mind

• I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.

  Bonnie McKee

  Song, Writing, Kids

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing 'Roar,' and More". Interview with Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

• I think the difference between a good song and a great song is... honestly, I think the lyrics, because if you have a really solid melody and solid track and everything is there but then the lyric is just okay, then you've got a good song.

  Bonnie McKee

  Song, Thinking, Differences

• If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.

  Bonnie McKee

  Song, Unique, Interesting

• There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that feeling with a song and it never goes anywhere, that happens all the time too, so you never really know.

  Bonnie McKee

  Song, Writing, Feelings

• Sometimes I write a song and I'm down with it but I'm like yeah, whatever, and then everybody loves it and then it blows up. I'm like: "Okay! I didn't see that coming."

  Bonnie McKee

  Song, Writing, Blow

• I've always felt my spirit animal was a Tiger, so it's funny that now in 'Roar' with Katy Perry - which is a song we write together - there's the line: "I got the eye of the Tiger..." So I feel like there's a little bit of me in there.

  Bonnie McKee

  Song, Writing, Eye

• I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called "Kitten." It was about a boy named Liam, who I was just crazy about.

  Bonnie McKee

  Girl, Song, Crazy

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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