Kou Shibasaki Quotes

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.

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

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

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

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

I think, with music, I'm a lyricist who talks about real life things.

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

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 usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.

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

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

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

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I just take a lot of notes, and sometimes I sit down and put them all together.