Billy Gibbons Quotes

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

I think you get better as you get older.

I like to think of 'Illuminate' as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.

After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of verses or a certain set of chords. I can match them up quicker now than I used to. The one thing you do improve is songwriting.

You could say that as I've gotten more mature, I've acquired more manure.

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

Everything's a learning experience.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

I think just by the nature of getting older, I hope that I'm a smarter basketball player than I was at 23.

I feel like the youthful experience is what drives the creativity, and I feel like experience and maturity as an adult, experience as an elder statesman, that refines it.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.