Lorde Quotes

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will be another writer in the room.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.

For 'Hey Monday,' there were songs that I co-wrote with songwriters or producers, but our last EP, the whole band did everything together. I've had a lot of experience with co-writes, which is basically what I'm doing now. I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

Working as a producer, an arranger, and, in some cases, as a writer for some other people gave me a super different perspective.

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

I'm now working with some of the best songwriters in the world and Sia has written a song that has been given to me. Oh my God, it's just insane.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.

I'm always making beats, and when I can hear Ezra singing on one of them in my head, I send it to him. That's one of the ways that we've always worked together.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.