Robert Trujillo Quotes

Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

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

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

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.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

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

I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

'It's Everyday Bro' started with me talking about the things I do on a day-to-day basis. From there, the creativity was unleashed, and the song was the result.

I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song.

A lot of our songs are based in reality but imagined or using fictional characters as a way to write about something. I think inspiration comes from anything and everything, and it's filtered through our brains, and it comes out sounding like our band.

Most times, you walk into a room, and you don't really have a starting point. You have to create the starting point, and normally you'd do that by thinking of a title or a concept for a song, then working back from there.

I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes on beforehand.

Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes together and I could hear what I wanted the songs to sound like, I just didn't know how to express it.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

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