James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

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

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.