Curtis Jackson Quotes

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.