Joe Elliott Quotes

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.

I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful.

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

I wrote a song called 'Pretty Little Dead Girl.'

I like lyrics a lot.

I write all my hooks.

I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going to be different.

The 'Hey Monday' songs were always glammed up to be this big production, and I definitely want there to be some bells and whistles like synth or drum loops, but for the most part, I want a simple yet powerful production.

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.