Gilbert O'Sullivan Quotes

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

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

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

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

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.

Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

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.

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

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 don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

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.

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.

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.

A friend and I started a band together. I am kind of learning how to play instruments. We write stuff over Skype or e-mail. I send one part and he writes another.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.