Martin Gore Quotes

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

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

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 never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

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

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

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.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

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.