The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.
Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
If people want to write long, rambling, pathetic articles about how sad they are about song titles, have a blast! I'll be out playing music to a room full of people, having a great time.
A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it.
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.
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 just want to keep writing music.
I write my music.
If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.
I write music every day.
Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.
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.
A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain kind of music that I start hearing. It's the music of the language, but it's also the music of the story. I have to live with that music for a while before I can put any words on the page. I think that's because I have to get my body as much as my mind accustomed to the music of writing that particular book. It really is a mysterious feeling.
Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.
I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.
I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music.
Maybe that's what makes my stuff different, 'cause I write it all on the bass. I can't play but a few chords on the guitar, so the bass works just fine for me.
I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.
I've always loved music since I was 11. I used to play keyboard, and I would write music. So since 11, I've been falling in love with music.
I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."
The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.
I started writing music around 20 years old.
