CeCe Peniston Quotes

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

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'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

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.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

There's a few times in the past when I wrote a song, and I put the words together, and they were very clear pictures, and I felt like I was putting together a really good story. But I don't think I was ever really able to stay on that. What I've sort of developed lyrically is more about the sound of the vocals and what they are.

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.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

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.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.