Douglas Hodge Quotes

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

We've always tried to inspire ourselves, so to speak. In the beginning, that could mean just hearing your own songs played back to you for the very first time.

Since I was 9 years old, I knew how to make a song. But when I got older, I used it as a way to express myself.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music.

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

I started playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

It's so fun to make up stories, but I find that the songs that I'm most proud of came from a real thing in my life - 'Peter Pan' being one of those.

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

I've always known I could write. I have an ear for production and melody. It was just that, in those early years, I let everyone do it for me. To be honest, I was a little lazy!

The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

I was like, 'Okay, cool, I'ma learn how to produce my own beats,' and I stuck to it. Now, it's hard to even take a beat from anyone else.