King Tuff Quotes

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

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

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

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

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.

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

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

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

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

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

The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

If there's a track that's rhyme friendly, the verse will basically write itself. If the track is less rhyme friendly, you have to put forth a little more effort to get the song out.

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

The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

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

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

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