Amos Lee Quotes

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.

I can relate to soul, R&B ... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.

As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

I live a pretty anonymous life.

Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.