Feist Quotes

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

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.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

I write constantly about everything.

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

I am always trying to write.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.