Kathleen Edwards Quotes

I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

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.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.