Writing Lyrics Quotes

It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.

Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.

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

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

It takes a lot of emotional high and struggles to write songs.

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

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

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

I probably take about a month to write a song, depending on how much time I can dedicate to it, and it depends on how many hours a day there are and how many days in a week and weeks in a month.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

I don't think we ever really think about it when we're doing it, because if you sort of go in with a plan of attack, it tends to take away the natural rhythm of songwriting.

I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.

I fell in love with singing, and through singing, I learned how to write songs. Anything you're consistent with and that you do all the time, you're gonna reap benefits off it at one point. You're not gonna get worse!