Chris Martin Quotes

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song. I'd love to write songs like that.

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

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.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

I was a born singer.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

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

I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.

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.