Morgan Wallen Quotes

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.

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 started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing songs when they're, like, 12, 13. I never thought I would go into songwriting when I was that young.

Trying to write new music is definitely daunting, but I try not to overthink it.

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

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

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.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

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

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

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.