Justin Vernon Quotes

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

I don't write songs.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

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

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

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.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.