Sia Furler Quotes

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

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

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.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

Success is good, but I have seen the other side. I don't think much about it. I just work towards making a good melody, with catchy yet meaningful lyrics, and as I'm a music producer and arranger myself, I know the sound I need.

Our writing, especially during 'Boxer' - the recording process was the writing process, which is not the way I would advise anyone else to do it.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

The first line of the song is always the hardest thing to write. And then after that, the song should - unless it sucks - it should write itself.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

I'm always writing music.