Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

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

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.

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

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I write my music.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

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

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

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

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

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.