Mike Gordon Quotes

I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.

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

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

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

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

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

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

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

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

I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because I have a stock of handwritten lyrics in it.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.

Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.

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 always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.