Geddy Lee Quotes

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I write.

If I don't feel anything, I don't write music.

I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for yourself, it's just the way it is.

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.