Isaac Brock Quotes

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It's fun.

Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room and it's a complete flop. And then there's times where you get to a writing room and you're like, 'Oh, I'm just on a roll.'

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

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

I write songs every day, 14 times a day.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

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

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

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