Isaac Hanson Quotes

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf Rat.' I mean, that's twice in a lifetime of writing!

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

I sleep music. I wake up, and there's a riff in my head. Every step I take, there's a riff, a beat, or something.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

A song kind of comes out of anywhere. A song will come out of the sky, or an idea, or walking around, or playing with other guys.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

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.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.