Pardis Sabeti Quotes

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

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

I don't enjoy songwriting.

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.

I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

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

I'm always writing music.

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

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I don't write songs.

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

I write my music.

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.