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Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.