Tim Finn Quotes & Sayings

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can. — Tim Finn

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly. — Tim Finn

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake ... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled ... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I? — Tim Finn

I'm a live performer and I love playing live. — Tim Finn

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly. — Tim Finn

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened. — Tim Finn

True contentment comes with empathy. — Tim Finn

Walking beside you I want for nothing. — Tim Finn

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. — Tim Finn

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill ... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine ... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside. — Tim Finn

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it. — Tim Finn

When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo. — Tim Finn

The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense. — Tim Finn

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid. — Tim Finn

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times. — Tim Finn

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs. — Tim Finn

I think a good song is a good song is a good song. — Tim Finn