Mick Ralphs Quotes

I write songs every day, 14 times a day.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

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

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

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

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

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.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

Music is supposed to be inspired.