Kate Nash Quotes

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

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.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

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

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

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

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I am really heavy into songwriting.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone or something, or I'll scribble down on a piece of paper.

On a good night, I probably make three songs, and none of them are full songs.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

It's easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that's been my experience.

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.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.